Buffon on the Varieties of the Human Species, by Miriam Claude Meijer, Ph.D.
© Marble bust of Buffon by Augustin Pajou (1776). Bibliothèque centrale, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Historiography of Buffon’s Essay
- Original French 1749 Text of «Variétés dans l’espèce humaine» with New Unabridged American Translation*
- Up from the Cosmic Fall: Buffon’s Human Prototype
- Rhetoric of the Classical Six Non-Naturals Regimen
- Mysteries of the Missing: Prehistoric Extinctions
- Aesthetics in Buffon’s Science of Race
- Anthropology Seen Through Eighteenth-Century Lenses
Endnotes
Plates: Composition of Maps Known to Buffon
Buffon’s Travel Sources
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
* The eighteenth-century English translator, J.S. Barr, left out a lot of words and all of the footnotes. He occasionally made mistakes: incorrect words or incorrect translation of an entire phrase.
The Descendants of Adam: Enlightenment Anthropology,
by Miriam Claude Meijer, Ph.D.
Table of Contents
- Adam and Eve
- Genesis: Epigenesis, Degeneration, Monogenism.
- Monism: Cartesianism, Passions, Nerves.
- Angles: Optic, Occipital, Facial.
- Metamorphoses: Primate, Physiognomical, Aging.
- Venus: Classical, Earthly, Hottentot.
- Paradise Moved
Petrus Camper on Women
On the Moral Education of Children
"Raising Happy Children" (#21)
"Raising Happy Children" (#23)
"Raising Happy Children" (#25)
"Raising Happy Children" (#26)
"Raising Happy Children" (#28)
"Raising Happy Children" (#29)
"On Daughters" (#31)
"French Boarding Schools" (#33)
"On Religion" (#34)
"On Humanitarianism" (#35)
Empiricism and Natural Philosophy by Petrus Camper,
translated into English by Jacob van Sluis, Ph.D. and Miriam Claude Meijer, Ph.D.
New unabridged translations of Petrus Camper’s essays into American English.
Table of Contents
- “Biography of Petrus Camper” (1791) by his son, Adriaan Gilles Camper, trans. by Meijer from into
- “On the Best World” (#137), trans. by Van Sluis from into
- “Introduction to Philosophy” (#137), trans. by Van Sluis from into
- “On Certainty in Medicine” (#4), trans. by Van Sluis from into
- “On the Remarkable Analogy between Plantshoots and Animals” (#17), trans. by Van Sluis from into
- “Oration on Beauty” (ms.), trans. by Van Sluis from into
- “On the Excellence of Mankind over all other Animals” (ms.), trans. by Meijer from into
- “On the Folly of Most Natural History Amateurs to be Satisfied with the Division in Classes and Genera and the Absurdity which Lies in Linnaeus’s System” (#27), trans. by Meijer from into
- “Investigation on Whether the Art of Judging Human Character from Exterior Appearance Could be Further Perfected” (#47), trans. by Meijer from into
- “Facial Angle” (#118), trans. by Meijer from into
- “On the Points of Similarity between the Human Species, Quadrupeds, Birds, and Fish; with Rules for Drawing, founded on this Similarity” (#119a), trans. by Meijer from into
- “On the Passions” (#119b), trans. by Meijer from into
- “On Physical Beauty” (#119c), trans. by Meijer from into plus graphics
- “On the Best Form of Shoe” (#92), trans. by Meijer from into
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