Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment

by Peter Hanns Reill

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This far-reaching study redraws the intellectual map of the Enlightenment and boldly reassesses the legacy of that highly influential period for us today. Peter Hanns Reill argues that in the middle of the eighteenth century, a major shift occurred in the way Enlightenment thinkers conceived of nature that caused many of them to reject the prevailing doctrine of mechanism and turn to a vitalistic model to account for phenomena in natural history,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0520241355

ISBN13:9780520241350

Release Date:June 2005

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:398 Pages

Weight:1.52 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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