AUTHOR:
Bonnet, Charles (1720-1793)
TITLE: Oeuvres d’histoire
naturelle et de philosophie de Charles Bonnet.
IMPRINT:
Neuchatel, S. Fauche, 1779-1783.
COLLATION:
8 v. in 10.: plates (part fold.) tables (part fold.); 27 cm.
CONTENTS:
t. 1. Traite d’insectologie. Observations diverses sur les insectes t. 2.
Memoires d’histoire naturelle. Recherches sur l-usage des feuilles t. 3.
Considerations sur les corps organises t. 4. Contemplation de la nature t. 5.
ptie. 1. Ecrits d’histoire naturelle t. 5., ptie. 2. Lettres sur divers sujets
d’histoire naturelle t. 6. Essai analytique su les facultes de l’ame
t. 7. La palingenesie philosophique t. 8. Essai de psychologie et ecrits divers.
NOTES: “First edition of the author’s
collected works. Bonnet, considered one of the fathers of modern biology, is best
known for his discovery of parthenogenetic reproduction. His controversial theory
of performation, reinforced by Haller’s arguments, supported the proposition
that every female individual contains within her the ‘germs’ of all
the creatures that originate from her, one generation within the other. He was
one of the first naturalists to investigate photosynthesis, and was an early exponent
of experimental entomology. His evolutionary theories dealing with natural catastrophes
foreshadowed those of Lamarck and Cuvier and were diligently studied and admired
by contemporary biologists.” — Rootenberg catalogue no. 8
“First
edition... of the collected scientific and philosophical writings of Bonnet. He
‘is considered one of the fathers of modern biology. He is distinguished
for both his experimental research and his philosophy, which exerted a profound
influence upon the naturalists of the eighteenth and ninteenth centuries.’
(DSB II, p. 286) — Jonathan A. Hill catalogue no. 142 (2002)
REFERENCE:
: BMC, Natural History, I, p. 197 (4to ed.); Glass, et al., Forerunners
of Darwin, pp. 164-70; Needham, A historyt of Embryology, pp. 213-214;
Nissen, ZBI, 461; Nordenskiöld, History of Biology, pp. 224-249; Casey
Wood, p. 249; see Garrison & Morton, 472
PROVENANCE:
: Amos Binney. Boston Society of Natural History.
KEYWORDS:
1. Natural history. 2. Philosophy.
LOCATION:
QH9.B71 1779a
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