Author: Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Barr's Buffon. Buffon's Natural History: Of the degeneration of animals [continued]. Nature and properties of minerals, vegetables, &c. Experiments on light, and on the heat it may producce. General views of nature
Buffon’s Natural History
Author: Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752340886
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Buffon’s Natural History by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752340886
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Buffon’s Natural History by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Mirrors of the New World
Author: Joseph Michael Powell
Publisher: Folkestone, Eng. : Dawson ; Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
ISBN:
Category : AUSTRALASIA
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher: Folkestone, Eng. : Dawson ; Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
ISBN:
Category : AUSTRALASIA
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Theorizing the Sexual Child in Modernity
Author: R. Egan
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230106005
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This ground-breaking work provides the first history of ideas about the sexual child in modernity. Beginning with twenty-first century panics about sexualization, the authors address why the sexual child excites such powerful emotions in the Anglophone west.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230106005
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This ground-breaking work provides the first history of ideas about the sexual child in modernity. Beginning with twenty-first century panics about sexualization, the authors address why the sexual child excites such powerful emotions in the Anglophone west.
Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture
Author: Manon Mathias
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030018571
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
This book considers the historical and cultural origins of the gut-brain relationship now evidenced in numerous scientific research fields. Bringing together eleven scholars with wide interdisciplinary expertise, the volume examines literal and metaphorical digestion in different spheres of nineteenth-century life. Digestive health is examined in three sections in relation to science, politics and literature during the period, focusing on Northern America, Europe and Australia. Using diverse methodologies, the essays demonstrate that the long nineteenth century was an important moment in the Western understanding and perception of the gastroenterological system and its relation to the mind in the sense of cognition, mental wellbeing, and the emotions. This collection explores how medical breakthroughs are often historically preceded by intuitive models imagined throughout a range of cultural productions.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030018571
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
This book considers the historical and cultural origins of the gut-brain relationship now evidenced in numerous scientific research fields. Bringing together eleven scholars with wide interdisciplinary expertise, the volume examines literal and metaphorical digestion in different spheres of nineteenth-century life. Digestive health is examined in three sections in relation to science, politics and literature during the period, focusing on Northern America, Europe and Australia. Using diverse methodologies, the essays demonstrate that the long nineteenth century was an important moment in the Western understanding and perception of the gastroenterological system and its relation to the mind in the sense of cognition, mental wellbeing, and the emotions. This collection explores how medical breakthroughs are often historically preceded by intuitive models imagined throughout a range of cultural productions.
History of man
Author: Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Reactive Oxygen Species in Biological Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Author: Carol Colton
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0306468069
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 703
Book Description
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) which include free radicals, peroxides, singlet oxygen, ozone, and nitrogen monoxide and dioxide free radicals, is an area of intense research. This volume covers (1) the destruction of cellular function by ROS resulting in pathological states; (2) the protection by ROS of an organism against invading organisms that cause infections; and (3) the role of ROS in normal physiological processes. Designed for beginning graduate students, this book gives a concise overview of the field.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0306468069
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 703
Book Description
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) which include free radicals, peroxides, singlet oxygen, ozone, and nitrogen monoxide and dioxide free radicals, is an area of intense research. This volume covers (1) the destruction of cellular function by ROS resulting in pathological states; (2) the protection by ROS of an organism against invading organisms that cause infections; and (3) the role of ROS in normal physiological processes. Designed for beginning graduate students, this book gives a concise overview of the field.
Buffon's Natural History
Author: Georges Louis Leclerc De Buffon
Publisher: Outlook Verlag
ISBN: 3752395028
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Buffon's Natural History by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Publisher: Outlook Verlag
ISBN: 3752395028
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Buffon's Natural History by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
The Epochs of Nature
Author: Georges-Louis Leclerc
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022639557X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon's The Epochs of Nature, originally published as Les Époques de la Nature in 1778, is one of the first great popular science books, a work of style and insight that was devoured by Catherine the Great of Russia and influenced Humboldt, Darwin, Lyell, Vernadsky, and many other renowned scientists. It is the first geological history of the world, stretching from the Earth’s origins to its foreseen end, and though Buffon was limited by the scientific knowledge of his era—the substance of the Earth was not, as he asserts, dragged out of the sun by a giant comet, nor is the sun’s heat generated by tidal forces—many of his deductions appear today as startling insights. And yet, The Epochs of Nature has never before been available in its entirety in English—until now. In seven epochs, Buffon reveals the main features of an evolving Earth, from its hard rock substrate to the sedimentary layers on top, from the minerals and fossils found within these layers to volcanoes, earthquakes, and rises and falls in sea level—and he even touches on age-old mysteries like why the sun shines. In one of many moments of striking scientific prescience, Buffon details evidence for species extinction a generation before Cuvier’s more famous assertion of the phenomenon. His seventh and final epoch does nothing less than offer the first geological glimpse of the idea that humans are altering the very foundations of the Earth—an idea of remarkable resonance as we debate the designation of another epoch: the Anthropocene. Also featuring Buffon’s extensive “Notes Justificatives,” in which he offers further evidence to support his assertions (and discusses vanished monstrous North American beasts—what we know as mastodons—as well as the potential existence of human giants), plus an enlightening introduction by editor and translator Jan Zalasiewicz and historians of science Sverker Sörlin, Libby Robin, and Jacques Grinevald, this extraordinary new translation revives Buffon’s quite literally groundbreaking work for a new age.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022639557X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon's The Epochs of Nature, originally published as Les Époques de la Nature in 1778, is one of the first great popular science books, a work of style and insight that was devoured by Catherine the Great of Russia and influenced Humboldt, Darwin, Lyell, Vernadsky, and many other renowned scientists. It is the first geological history of the world, stretching from the Earth’s origins to its foreseen end, and though Buffon was limited by the scientific knowledge of his era—the substance of the Earth was not, as he asserts, dragged out of the sun by a giant comet, nor is the sun’s heat generated by tidal forces—many of his deductions appear today as startling insights. And yet, The Epochs of Nature has never before been available in its entirety in English—until now. In seven epochs, Buffon reveals the main features of an evolving Earth, from its hard rock substrate to the sedimentary layers on top, from the minerals and fossils found within these layers to volcanoes, earthquakes, and rises and falls in sea level—and he even touches on age-old mysteries like why the sun shines. In one of many moments of striking scientific prescience, Buffon details evidence for species extinction a generation before Cuvier’s more famous assertion of the phenomenon. His seventh and final epoch does nothing less than offer the first geological glimpse of the idea that humans are altering the very foundations of the Earth—an idea of remarkable resonance as we debate the designation of another epoch: the Anthropocene. Also featuring Buffon’s extensive “Notes Justificatives,” in which he offers further evidence to support his assertions (and discusses vanished monstrous North American beasts—what we know as mastodons—as well as the potential existence of human giants), plus an enlightening introduction by editor and translator Jan Zalasiewicz and historians of science Sverker Sörlin, Libby Robin, and Jacques Grinevald, this extraordinary new translation revives Buffon’s quite literally groundbreaking work for a new age.
A Natural History of the Globe
Author: Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description