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Product Description: The first unabridged English translation of the correspondence between Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Georg Ernst Stahl detailing their opposing philosophies The correspondence between the eighteenth-century mathematician and philosopher G...read more
By Justin E. H. Smith (editor)

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9780300161144 | Yale Univ Pr, August 9, 2016, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: The first unabridged English translation of the correspondence between Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Georg Ernst Stahl detailing their opposing philosophies The correspondence between the eighteenth-century mathematician and philosopher G.

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Product Description: People have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge during the modern period. Why and how did this happen? Surveying a range of philosophical and natural-scientific texts, dating from the Spanish Renaissance to the German Enlightenment, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference charts the evolution of the modern concept of race and shows that natural philosophy, particularly efforts to taxonomize and to order nature, played a crucial role...read more

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9780691153643, titled "Nature, Human Nature, & Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy" | Princeton Univ Pr, June 30, 2015, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: People have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge during the modern period.

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9780396077718, titled "Easy Identification Guide to North American Snakes" | Dodd Mead, November 1, 1979, cover price $10.95 | also contains Easy Identification Guide to North American Snakes | About this edition: Distribution maps and illustrations showing the snakes no less than one-third of their actual sizes accompany descriptions of the identifying characteristics of all United States species

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Product Description: The present volume advances a recent historiographical turn towards the intersection of early modern philosophy and the life sciences by bringing together many of its leading scholars to present the contributions of important but often neglected figures, such as Ralph Cudworth, Nehemiah Grew, Francis Glisson, Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Georg Ernst Stahl, Juan Gallego de la Serna, Nicholas Hartsoeker, Henry More, as well as more familiar figures such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Malebranche, and Kant...read more
By Justin E. H. Smith (editor)

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9780199987313 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 6, 2014, cover price $78.00 | About this edition: The present volume advances a recent historiographical turn towards the intersection of early modern philosophy and the life sciences by bringing together many of its leading scholars to present the contributions of important but often neglected figures, such as Ralph Cudworth, Nehemiah Grew, Francis Glisson, Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Georg Ernst Stahl, Juan Gallego de la Serna, Nicholas Hartsoeker, Henry More, as well as more familiar figures such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Malebranche, and Kant.

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Product Description: This volume draws a balanced picture of the Rationalists by bringing their intellectual contexts, sources and full range of interests into sharper focus, without neglecting their core commitment to the epistemological doctrine that earned them their traditional label...read more
By Carlos Fraenkel (editor), Dario Perinetti (editor) and Justin E. H. Smith (editor)

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9789048193844 | Springer Verlag, September 29, 2010, cover price $209.00 | About this edition: This volume draws a balanced picture of the Rationalists by bringing their intellectual contexts, sources and full range of interests into sharper focus, without neglecting their core commitment to the epistemological doctrine that earned them their traditional label.

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9789400733824 | Springer Verlag, December 1, 2012, cover price $209.00 | About this edition: This volume draws a balanced picture of the Rationalists by bringing their intellectual contexts, sources and full range of interests into sharper focus, without neglecting their core commitment to the epistemological doctrine that earned them their traditional label.

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Product Description: This book examines the early modern science of generation, which included the study of animal conception, heredity, and fetal development. Analyzing how it influenced the contemporary treatment of traditional philosophical questions, it also demonstrates how philosophical presuppositions about mechanism, substance, and cause informed the interpretations offered by those conducting empirical research on animal reproduction...read more
By Justin E. H. Smith (editor)

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9781107407282 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 13, 2012, cover price $49.99 | About this edition: This book examines the early modern science of generation, which included the study of animal conception, heredity, and fetal development.

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Product Description: Though it did not yet exist as a discrete field of scientific inquiry, biology was at the heart of many of the most important debates in seventeenth-century philosophy. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the work of G. W. Leibniz...read more

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9780691141787 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 11, 2011, cover price $58.00 | About this edition: Though it did not yet exist as a discrete field of scientific inquiry, biology was at the heart of many of the most important debates in seventeenth-century philosophy.

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Product Description: This book examines the early modern science of generation, which included the study of animal conception, heredity, and fetal development. Analyzing how it influenced the contemporary treatment of traditional philosophical questions, it also demonstrates how philosophical presuppositions about mechanism, substance, and cause informed the interpretations offered by those conducting empirical research on animal reproduction...read more
By Justin E. H. Smith (editor)

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9780521840774 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2006, cover price $119.99 | About this edition: This book examines the early modern science of generation, which included the study of animal conception, heredity, and fetal development.

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