Julia Douthwaite,The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002

Julia V. Douthwaite. The Wild Girl, Natu

Julia V. Douthwaite. The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 314 pp. $55.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-226-16055-6. $19.00 (paper). ISBN 0-226-16056-4.

✍ Adriana S. Benzaquén 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 249 KB

One of the most remarkable developments in psychology in the last decade has certainly been the efflorescence of popular evolutionary psychology. From Robert Wright to Matt Ridley, from David Buss to David Barash, the number of books purporting to show that humans possess a genetically based, natura

Julia V. Douthwaite:The Wild Girl, Natur

Julia V. Douthwaite:The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment,

✍ Coat, Nanette Le 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 University of Chicago Press 🌐 English ⚖ 256 KB

Sensible science. Science in the age of

Sensible science. Science in the age of sensibility: the sentimental empiricists of the French enlightenment: Jessica Riskin, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002, 296pp, $25.00, ISBN 0-226-72079-9

✍ Sarah Knott 📂 Article 📅 2004 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 141 KB

Robert J. Richards,The Romantic Concepti

Robert J. Richards,The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002; Astrida Orle Tantillo,The Will to Create: Goethe's Philosophy of Nature. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002

✍ Joan Steigerwald 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English ⚖ 45 KB

More than a biography: The Man Who Flatt

More than a biography: The Man Who Flattened the Earth – Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment by Mary Terrall. University of Chicago Press, 2002. $ 39.00 (ix+408 pp.) ISBN 0226793605

✍ Péter Rózsa 📂 Article 📅 2004 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 47 KB

Robert J. Richards. The Romantic Concept

Robert J. Richards. The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 587 pp. $35 (cloth). ISBN 0-226-71210-9.

✍ Joan Steigerwald 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 249 KB

One of the most remarkable developments in psychology in the last decade has certainly been the efflorescence of popular evolutionary psychology. From Robert Wright to Matt Ridley, from David Buss to David Barash, the number of books purporting to show that humans possess a genetically based, natura