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The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought
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Author(s):
Jacques Roger
Editor(s):
Keith R. Benson
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Stanford University Press
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9780804780834
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March 01 1998
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January 04 2022
DOI:
10.1515/9780804780834
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Book chapters
pp. i
Frontmatter
pp. vii
EDITOR'S FOREWORD
pp. xi
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE
pp. xiii
CONTENTS
pp. xli
Preface to the Original Edition (1963)
pp. xv
Preface to the 1993 Edition
pp. xxxix
Preface to the Second Edition (1971)
pp. 1
ONE / The Medical and Scientific Spirit of the First Half of the Seventeenth Century
pp. 37
TWO / The Battle with Shadows
pp. 74
THREE / In Search of Clear Ideas
pp. 124
Conclusion to Part I
pp. 131
FOUR / The New Scientific Mentality
pp. 205
FIVE / New Discoveries in Animal Reproduction
pp. 259
SIX / The Preexistence of Germs
pp. 308
SEVEN / Problems with Preexistence
pp. 354
Conclusion to Part II
pp. 367
EIGHT / Precursors and Mavericks
pp. 426
NINE / Buffon
pp. 475
TEN / Resistance to the New Science
pp. 530
Conclusion to Part III
pp. 543
Epilogue
pp. 561
Notes
pp. 691
Bibliography
pp. 733
Supplementary Bibliography
pp. 735
Index
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