Download or read book Charles Bonnet of Geneva written by Max Carlton Grober and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Bonnet 1720 1793 With a Bibliography and with Plates Including a Portrait written by Georges BONNET (Docteur en philosophie.) and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Bonnet 1720 1793 written by Georges Bonnet and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Bonnet and the Order of the Known written by L. Anderson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Bonnet began his career as a naturalist, from an early age establishing a reputation as a careful observer. It is for those youthful observations, as well as for some suggestive speculations proposed relative to this field, that he is best remembered in English-speaking countries: regarding the taxonomic de mands of natural history he refurbished the idea of a chain of beings; regarding the question of generation he marshaled evidence in support of preforma tion theory; and regarding the analysis of the physiology of the nervous system he advanced a theory that individual nerve fibers receive and retain specific sensations. Following his loss of eyesight in his mid-twenties Bonnet entered a more reflective period, turning to philosophy and pondering the nature of human understanding - considerations he had formerly disdained, but that now seemed a natural outgrowth of his reflections on nature. This essay focuses on the philosophical and psychological works of the later period, the period in which he wrote all his major books. By giving these writings a broader exposure it has been one of my hopes that Bonnet's audience would also be broadened, releasing him, so to speak, from the charge of historians of science so that he might fmd his way, in general books on the "Enlightenment", from scattered footnotes into the texts themselves.
Download or read book Geneva written by Francis Henry Gribble and published by London : A. and C. Black. This book was released on 1908 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book the nubian pharaohs black kings on the nile written by charles bonnet and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exciting new discoveries shed light on a little-known period of Egypt'shistory
Download or read book Charles Bonnet 1720 1793 written by Georges Bonnet and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Bonnet written by Georges Bonnet (Docteur en philosophie.) and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nature s Enigma written by Virginia Parker Dawson and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1987 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two striking discoveries made 1740 a turning point in the history of 18th-century biology. Charles Bonnet established that aphids could reproduce without male fertilization. Shortly afterwards Abraham Trembley proved that a tiny aquatic animal, the fresh water polyp, or hydra, could regenerate from cuttings like some plants. The discovery of the polyp was important because of the disturbing metaphysical issues that it raised. In their letters written during the decade of the 1740s to Reaumur, the great French Academician, both Trembley & Bonnet referred to the polyp as an enigma. Not only did it seem to present a new mode of animal reproduction, previously unsuspected, but it called into question the prevailing mechanistic view of animal biology & brought into focus the problem of animal soul. Drawing on some of the most illuminating letters from the private archives of the Trembley family, this study focuses on the discovery of the polyp, using the correspondence of Bonnet & Trembley to understand their common Genevan background & their possible differences in approach from that of Reaumur.
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Download or read book Philosophical and Critical Inquiries Concerning Christianity written by Charles Bonnet and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Adultery and Divorce in Calvin s Geneva written by Robert McCune Kingdon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Calvin's Geneva, the changes associated with the Reformation were particularly abrupt and far-reaching, in large part owing to John Calvin himself. Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva makes two major contributions to our understanding of this time. The first is to the history of divorce. The second is in illustrating the operations of the Consistory of Geneva--an institution designed to control in all its variety the behavior of the entire population--which was established at Calvin's insistence in 1541. This mandate came shortly after the city officially adopted Protestantism in 1536, a time when divorce became legally possible for the first time in centuries. Robert Kingdon illustrates the changes that accompanied the earliest Calvinist divorces by examining in depth a few of the most dramatic cases and showing how divorce affected real individuals. He considers first, and in the most detail, divorce for adultery, the best-known grounds for divorce and the best documented. He also covers the only other generally accepted grounds for these early divorces--desertion. The second contribution of the book, to show the work of the Consistory of Geneva, is a first step toward a fuller study of the institution. Kingdon has supervised the first accurate and complete transcription of the twenty-one volumes of registers of the Consistory and has made the first extended use of these materials, as well as other documents that have never before been so fully utilized.
Download or read book Science Against the Unbelievers written by Renato Giuseppe Mazzolini and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.
Download or read book Geneva written by Francis Henry Gribble and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Geneva: Painted by J. Hardwicke Lewis & May Hardwicke Lewis... Described by Francis Gribble" by Francis Henry Gribble is a beautifully illustrated book that offers readers a visual and descriptive journey through the picturesque city of Geneva. Gribble's evocative descriptions complement the exquisite paintings by J. Hardwicke Lewis and May Hardwicke Lewis, allowing readers to immerse themselves in the charm and beauty of Geneva. This book is a delightful combination of art and travel writing, making it a perfect choice for those interested in exploring the cultural and scenic treasures of Switzerland.
Download or read book Charles Bonnet Analytical Essay on the Faculties of the Soul written by Stephen Gaukroger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of the eighteenth century, understanding human cognitive life came to be construed as something to be explored in terms of the physiology of the sensory organs, the nerves, and the brain: a form of naturalization that effectively moved cognition out of the realm of philosophy as it had traditionally been understood. Bonnet's Analytical Essay on the Faculties of the Soul was at the forefront of these developments, and this is its first English translation. Drawing on his earlier work in natural history--he was the leading entomologist of his era--he approaches problems of the nature of the mind via the physiology and anatomy of the brain and sensory systems. His approach is one of 'reverse engineering', starting from an organic statue without faculties, and investigating how it would need to be modified to produce a human being. Bonnet takes up a position that cuts across the standard understanding of the period as a clash between materialism and dualism. While his approach was rigorously naturalistic and physiological, this did not lead him to reject the notion of a soul. Instead, he argues that, in order to make sense of their sensory abilities, we need to attribute a soul to animals as well as human beings. At the same time, he argues that if personal immortality is to be possible, it can be conceived along the lines of insect metamorphosis, which shows how different biological forms can harbour a single identity.
