Bonnet and Buffon: Theories of generation and the problem of species

Journal of the History of Biology 6 (2):259-281 (1973)
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The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea.Arthur O. Lovejoy - 1936 - Cambridge, Mass.,: Transaction Publishers.
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