Author: Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de LamarckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physiology, Comparative
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Zoological Philosophy
Author: Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de LamarckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physiology, Comparative
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Zoological Philosophy; an Exposition With Regard to the Natural History of Animals ..
Author: Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine LamarckPublisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781022883635
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Zoological Philosophy is a groundbreaking treatise on natural history by the French biologist and philosopher Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Lamarck. Originally published in 1809, the book presents an innovative theory of evolution that seeks to explain the diversity of animal species based on their adaptation to their environment and their inheritance of acquired characteristics. The book also contains numerous observations and descriptions of animals, as well as Lamarck's reflections on the nature of knowledge and the philosophy of science. This book will appeal to biologists, philosophers, and anyone interested in the history of scientific thought. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Zoological Philosophy; an Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals ...
Author: Jean Baptiste Pierre LamarckPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230457840
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... INTRODUCTION. 1. Life. Jean-baptiste-pierre-antoine De Monet De Lamarck was born on Aug. 1st, 1744, at Bazantin, a village in Picardy, now known as the Department of the Somme. He was the eleventh and youngest child of his parents, and belonged to a family of nobility which had for generations past been devoted to military pursuits. A number of his brothers carried on the family tradition by entering the French army; but Jean himself was destined by his father for an ecclesiastical career, and was entered as a student at the Jesuit College at Amiens. Yet he himself had no inclination to the calling desired by his father; and on the death of the latter in 1760, he made immediate use of his new liberty to leave the Jesuit College and join the French army, which was then in Germany, near the end of the Seven Years' War. He bought a horse and rode through France and part of Germany, until he reached the French lines on the eve of the Battle of Fissingshausen. He carried with him a letter of introduction to the colonel of one of the infantry regiments; and on the following morning placed himself in a company of Grenadiers. The battle of Fissingshausen was fought and lost: the French retreated: all the officers of Lamarck's company were killed, and the command fell upon him. His courage was such that his colonel took him that very evening to the Field-Marshal, by whom he was appointed an officer.1 1 This at least is the story told by all Lamarck's biographers. I venture nevertheless to suggest that it can hardly be accepted in the unquestioning way usually followed. The story is founded upon Cuvier's Eloge de M. de Lamarck, and that again is doubtless Shortly afterwards Lamarck was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. Peace being...
Zoological Philosophy
Author: Lamarck Jean B.Publisher: AMS Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Zoological Philosophy
Author: Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de LamarckPublisher:
ISBN: 9780226468099
Category : Physiology, Comparative
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
The Philosophy of Zoology Before Darwin
Author: Alex McBirneyPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048130093
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Jean Octave Edmond Perrier was a French zoologist who lived through the tumult of British Darwinism and Lyellism, and reminds us in this revealing account that French scientists had much to contribute to such perennial topics as evolution, catastrophism and creationism. While very much a product of the Third Republic, Perrier’s account also aimed to outline timeless issues and permanent advances in taxonomic and developmental biology since classical Greece and Rome. In this aim he succeeds with surprisingly modern perspectives for a book first published in 1884. Perrier was born May 9, 1844 at Tulle, the son of the principal of a school which now bears his name, Lycée Edmond Perrier. In 1864 he was accepted to the École Normale Supérieure, where he was strongly influenced by Louis Pasteur and Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers. After working for three years at a high school in Agen, he obtained a post of naturalist-aid at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (1868), advancing in that institution to Chair of Natural History of Molluscs, Worms and Corals (1876–1903) and then Director of the museum (1900–1919) and Chair of Comparative Anatomy (1903–1921). Previous directors of the museum included many of the scientists he discusses in this book: George Cuvier (1822–1823, 1826–1827, 1830–1831), Isidore Geoffrey St Hilaire (1860– 1861), and Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1891–1900). Perrier’s own research on echinoderms and earthworms took him on several expeditions in 1880-1885, mostly to Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts, but also to the Caribbean.
Zoological Philosophy
Author: Zoological Philosophy
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ISBN:
Category : Physiology, Comparative
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Philosophie Zoologique
Author: J. B. LamarckPublisher:
ISBN: 9783768200288
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Human and Animal Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy and Medicine
Author: Stefanie BuchenauPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822982374
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, new anatomical investigations of the brain and the nervous system, together with a renewed interest in comparative anatomy, allowed doctors and philosophers to ground their theories on sense perception, the emergence of human intelligence, and the soul/body relationship in modern science. They investigated the anatomical structures and the physiological processes underlying the rise, differentiation, and articulation of human cognitive activities, and looked for the "anatomical roots" of the specificity of human intelligence when compared to other forms of animal sensibility. This edited volume focuses on medical and philosophical debates on human intelligence and animal perception in the early modern age, providing fresh insights into the influence of medical discourse on the rise of modern philosophical anthropology. Contributions from distinguished historians of philosophy and medicine focus on sixteenth-century zoological, psychological, and embryological discourses on man; the impact of mechanism and comparative anatomy on philosophical conceptions of body and soul; and the key status of sensibility in the medical and philosophical enlightenment.