DARWIN, Zoonomie, ou lois de la vie organique, 1807-1811
DARWIN, Erasmus.
Zoonomie, ou lois de la vie organique.
Gand, P. F. de Goesin-Verhaeghe, 1807-1811.
Four volumes 8vo (207x125 mm), (4)-86-(8)-20-[17-23]-(8)-614-(1) pages and 3 color plates / (4)-659-(1) pages and 4 plates ( 3 with colors) / XIV-586 pages and 3 plates / (2)-570 pages and 1 folding plate. binding : Contemporary full calf, gilt flat spine. All edges marbled. Foxings.
First french edition.
Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin's grandfather, was a British physician, poet, and naturalist.
In Zoonomy, he proposed a classification of diseases based on the excitability of fibers, a physiological theory of the time.
The work also discussed early ideas about the evolution of species, suggesting that all living things might have descended from a common ancestor, anticipating some of the theories that his grandson would later develop, including that of sexual selection.
Darwin's work is preceded by "l'Analyse raisonnée de la Zoonomie de Darwin" published in 1807.
references: Heirs of Hippocrates [999: "Grandfather of Charles Darwin and Francis Galton, Erasmus Darwin provided in Zoonomia, his major work in medicine and natural science, the first consistent all-embracing hypothesis of evolution. "] Garrison-Morton [105 : "Grandfather of Charles Darwin and Francis Galton, Erasmus Darwin provided in Zoonomia, his major work in medicine and natural science, the first consistent all-embracing hypothesis of evolution."].
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