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Lamarck's approach to an understanding of man

Creator:

Dobson, Christopher Michael

Abstract:

Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) is considered here in the context of the Enlightenment effort to develop a science of man. His Philosophie zoologique (1809) and the Systeme analytique (1820) are the two principal relevant works examined in depth to discover how he meant to base a science of man on...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
Charles Babbage, philosopher, reformer, inventor : a history of his contributions to science

Creator:

Bell, Walter Lyle

Abstract:

This history concerns the scientific contributions of Charles Babbage (1791-1871) to mathematics, to the invention of calculating machines, and machine tools, to the development of scientific ideas through a wide variety of scientific investigations and his involvement in several different scientific reforms. Babbage considered himself a philosopher in the broadest...

Resource Type:

Dissertation