Protogaea
Contributors: Claudine Cohen (Translator); Andre Wakefield (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: March 15, 2008
Language: eng; lat
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780226112961
Subjects: Earth Sciences - Geology; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects; Earth Sciences - General; Science; Early works to 1800; Geology; Historical geology; Paleontology; Science/Mathematics
Description: "Protogaea is an ambitious account of terrestrial history, was central to the development of the earth sciences in the eighteenth century and provides key philosophical insights into the unity of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's thought and writings. Though the works of Leibniz have been widely translated into English, Protogaea has languished in its original Latin for centuries. Now Claudine Cohen and Andre Wakefield offer the first English translation of this central text in natural philosophy and natural history."--Jacket.