Science against the unbelievers
the correspondence of Bonnet and Needham, 1760-1780
Author: Renato G. Mazzolini and Shirley A. Roe
Volume: 243
Series: SVEC
Publication Date: 1986
Pages: 429
ISBN: 978-0-7294-0339-9
Price: £55
About
List of illustrations
List of abbreviations
Preface and acknowledgements
Biographical note: Charles Bonnet
Biographical note: John Turberville Needham
Introduction
1. The correspondence
2. The generation of living things
3. Metaphysics and epistemology
4. Revealed religion, materialism, and unbelievers
5. Needham’s controversy with Voltaire
6. The ‘bust of Isis’ and the sacred chronology
7. Cosmogony and the theory of the Earth
8. Bonnet and the Genevan political crisis, 1765-1768
9. Needham and the Brussels Academy of Sciences
10. The controversy over Schirach’s experiments on bees
The letters
Appendices
A. Needham’s genealogy
B. Needham’s ‘Mémoire sur la Generation’
C. Needham’s extant manuscripts and correspondence
Bibliography
Index
Table of contents
The correspondence of Bonnet and Needham, 1760-1780Le personnage de Jean-Jacques et les débuts du culte révolutionnaire (1787-1791)
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