Buffon on the Varieties of the Human Species, by Miriam Claude Meijer, Ph.D.
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.
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