AUTHOR:
Bonnet, Charles (1720-1793)
TITLE: Oeuvres d’histoire
naturelle et de philosophie de Charles Bonnet.
IMPRINT:
Neuchatel, S. Fauche, 1779-1783.
COLLATION:
18 v. front. (port.): 56 fold. plates, fold. tab.; 20 cm.
CONTENTS:
t. 1. Traite d’insectologie t. 2. Observations diverses sur les insectes
t. 3. Memoires d’histoirenaturelle t. 4. Recherches sur l’usage des
feuilles t. 5-6. Corps organises t. 7-9. Contemplation de lanature t. 10. Ecrits
d’histoire naturelle t. 11. Ecrits et lettres d’historie naturelle t.
12. Lettres sur divers sujets d’histoire naturelle t. 13-14. Essai analytique
sur les facultes de l’ame t. 15-16. La palingenesie philosophique t. 17.
Essai de psychologie t. 18. Ecrits divers.
NOTES:
“First edition. Published simultaneously with the quarto edition of the collected
scientific and philosophical writings of the celebrated Swiss naturalist and philosopher,
Charles 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 nineteenth
centuries.’ (DSB) includes his work on entomology, on plants (proving
that they have powers of sensation and discernment), evolution and the progressive
development of all beings in nature, on psychology and many others. Bonnet, considered
a man of genius, gave up his law studies to devote himself entirely to biological
investigations and natural history. His evolutionary theories foreshadowed the
evolutionary theory of Lamarck and Cuvier and was diligently studied and admired
by contemporary biologists.” - Jeff Weber, catalogue no. 50
REFERENCE:
: Blake, NLM, P. 58; Cole 1507 (4to ed.); Wellcome, II, p. 200; Garrison
and Morton 308 & 472; Forerunners of Darwin, pp. 165-170; DSB,
II, p. 286-287.
KEYWORDS: 1. Natural history.
2. Philosophy.
LOCATION: QH9.B71
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