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THIS is a scholarly and interesting discussion of a remarkable period in the history of natural science—an almost heroic period, with Buffon as one of the grand figures. It is as a chapter in intellectual development that the author considers the history of natural science in France in the eighteenth century, but it is significant of the book that it continually brings us to contemplate science as a social phenomenon.
Les Sciences de la Nature en France au XVIIIe Sicle.
By Prof. D. Mornet. Un Chapitre de l'Histoire des Idées. Pp. x + 291. (Paris: Armand Colin, 1911.) Price 3.50 francs.
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Les Sciences de la Nature en France au XVIII e Siècle . Nature 89, 476 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089476b0
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