✦ LIBER ✦

Essays on Life, Art and Science

✍ Scribed by Samuel Butler

Publisher: Duke Classics
Tongue: English
Weight: 127 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 162012162X

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✦ Synopsis

Recognized as a top-notch scholar with widely ranging interests and an encyclopedic knowledge of an array of academic disciplines, Samuel Butler contributed meaningfully to late nineteenth-century research in a number of fields. This volume collects some of his most important lectures and essays, a number of which have since been enshrined as important early works in disciplines as diverse as microbiology and the philosophy of language.

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