Buffon


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A biography of a premier French scientist of the Enlightenment and the director of France's Royal Botanical Garden, using Buffon's enormous literary production as the major source of insight into his and his age's beliefs about the natural world. Includes bandw illustrations from his Natural History. First published in 1989 as Buffon, un philosophe au Jardin du Roi, by Librarie Artheme Fayard. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR







Buffon's Natural History


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Buffon’s Natural History


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Reproduction of the original: Buffon’s Natural History by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon




The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-century Philosophy


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This two-volume set presents a comprehensive and up-to-date history of eighteenth-century philosophy. The subject is treated systematically by topic, not by individual thinker, school, or movement, thus enabling a much more historically nuanced picture of the period to be painted.




Buffon and the British


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The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity


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"The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity further suggests that an understanding of ancient attitudes toward other peoples shed light not only on Greco-Roman imperialism and the ideology of enslavement of foreigners in those societies (and on foreigners concomitant integration or non-integration), but also on the disintegration of the Roman Empire and on more recent imperialism as well."--BOOK JACKET.




The Invention of Race


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This edited collection explores the genesis of scientific conceptions of race and their accompanying impact on the taxonomy of human collections internationally as evidenced in ethnographic museums, world fairs, zoological gardens, international colonial exhibitions and ethnic shows. A deep epistemological change took place in Europe in this domain toward the end of the eighteenth century, producing new scientific representations of race and thereby triggering a radical transformation in the visual economy relating to race and racial representation and its inscription in the body. These practices would play defining roles in shaping public consciousness and the representation of “otherness” in modern societies. The Invention of Race provides contextualization that is often lacking in contemporary discussions on diversity, multiculturalism and race.




Geometrical Probability and Biological Structures: Buffon’s 200th Anniversary


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L'etude morphologique des tissus pathologiques en microscopie d' elements: optique comporte schematiquement deux types 1) les cellules, 2) les Fibres conjonctives intercellulaires. Ces Fibres, qui constituent Ie "squelette mou", servent de support aux elements cellwlaires, contribuent a maintenir l'architecture des tissu, et interviennent dans la circulation des liquides intercellu- laires. La quantite, la structure et la repartition de ces Fibres sont etroitement liees a l'activite physiologique des populations cellulaires et a leur pathologie.L'etude de leurs modiFications est tres utile dans Ie diagnostic d'une lesion, mais la complexite et la variete des images de ces reseaux Fibrillaires rend leur description et leur classiFication tres diFFiciles. L'application des methodes morphometriques peut etre un moyen utile pour obtenir des parametres objectiFs susceptibles de preciser ces structures. C'est uniquement l'etude des Fibres conjonctives que nous envisa- gerons pour Ie moment. L'emploi, en pratique courante, des methodes morphometriques comme aide au diagnostic anatomo-pathologique, ne peut se concevoir que si les techniques utilisees sont relativement simples et surtout rapides. Dans ce but, nous avons entrepris, depuis I973, avec les moyens du Laboratoire, la realisation d'un appareil automatique specialement con u pour essayer de repondre aux exigences particulieres de ce type d' e'tudes.