Thematic
Vitalism
Vitalists hold that living organisms are fundamentally different from non-living entities because they contain some non-physical element or are governed by different principles than are inanimate things. In ...
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Biographical
Bonnet, Charles (1720–93)
In his youth, Bonnet made a meticulous and creative study of insects, which won him international fame for his discoveries, as well as his methods. He turned to ...
Biographical
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1707–88)
Both as a scientist and as a writer, Buffon was one of the most highly esteemed figures of the European Enlightenment. In depicting the perpetual flux of the ...
Biographical
Cabanis, Pierre-Jean (1757–1808)
Cabanis believed in the possibility of a ‘science of man’, having its basis in medicine. He tried to show how a materialist conception of the human organism can ...
Biographical
Linnaeus, Carl von (1707–78)
Linnaeus was educated in Sweden, and became a doctor of medicine in Harderwijk, Holland, in 1735. He visited other European countries then, but he never left Sweden after ...