Book
Science against the unbelievers
- Alternative title:
- the correspondence of Bonnet and Needham, 1760-1780
- Abstract:
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List of illustrations
List of abbreviations
Preface and acknowledgements
Biographical note: Charles Bonnet
Biographical note: John Turberville Needham
Introduction
1. The correspondence
2. The generation of living things
3. Metaphysics and epistemology
4. Revealed religion, materialism, and unbelievers
5. Needham's controversy with Voltaire
6. The 'bust of Isis' and the sacred chronology
7. Cosmogony and the theory of the Earth
8. Bonnet and the Genevan political crisis, 1765-1768
9. Needham and the Brussels Academy of Sciences
10. The controversy over Schirach's experiments on bees
The letters
Appendices
A. Needham's genealogy
B. Needham's 'Mémoire sur la Generation'
C. Needham's extant manuscripts and correspondence
Bibliography
Index
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Voltaire Foundation
- Publication date:
- 2017-11-30
- ISBN:
- 9780729403399
- Language:
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English
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- Copyright holder:
- Voltaire Foundation
- Copyright date:
- 1986
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