From Natural History to the History of Nature: Readings from Buffon and His Critics

by John Lyon

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This scholarly and conscientious book makes an important . . . contribution to the study and interpretation of Buffon, and so, too, to the Enlightenment generally. What Lyon and Sloan have done is present English texts under four headings, so that we have successively: a selection from Buffon's writings prior to the first (1749) volumes of his Histoire naturelle; pieces from these first volumes of 1749; immediate responses by the earliest critics,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0268159742

ISBN13:9780268159740

Release Date:January 1981

Publisher:University of Notre Dame Press

Length:422 Pages

Weight:1.36 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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