Bonnet´s work on preformation 1769.
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BONNET, C(HARLES). La palingénésie philosophique ou idées sur l´état passé et sur l´état futur des êtres vivans. Ouvrage destiné à servir de supplément aux derniers écrits de l´auteur et qui contient principalement le précis de ses recherches sur le Christianisme. I-II. Geneve (Claude Philibert - Barthelemi Chirol) 1769.
8:o. (4), v-xxvi, (2), 1-427,(1 blank), (2), (i).iv, (2), 3-448 pp.
Uncut and unopened in contemporary grey wrappers, somewhat faded spines, damages at head anf foot, manuscript titles. Vol. I partly stained in upper margins, vol. II partly heavily stained in lower margins. A few marginal tears. Bookplate of the Leuhusen library. First edition. 2 volumes.
Charles Bonnet (1720-1793) is considered one of the fathers of modern biology. He is distinguished for both his experimental research and his philosophy, which exerted a profund influence upon the naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries... A true theoretician of biology, he exercised an enormous infuence in this field and maintaine a correspondence with almost all the scientists of his time. He published works that caused a considerable stir... Bonnet was an enthusiastic champion of preformation. This theory which Bonnet christened "palingenesis" set forth the functional structural notion of the cell, which was not stated formally until a hundred years later". (DSB II pp. 286/287).
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
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565459
Datum:
2018-08-31