By Toby A. Appel
For scientists, no occasion greater represents the competition among shape and serve as because the leader organizing precept of lifestyles because the debate among Georges Cuvier and Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. This booklet provides the 1st entire learn of the prestigious French clinical controversy that centred the eye of naturalists within the first many years of the 19th century at the conflicting claims of teleology, morphology, and evolution, which eventually contributed to the making of Darwin's thought. This heritage describes not just the clinical dimensions of the debate and its impression on participants and associations, but in addition examines the which means of the talk for tradition and society within the years prior to Darwin.
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His belief that ideas were at the root of the Revolution led him to fear the consequences of unbridled generalizations in the sciences, as well as in political and social thought. 48 Cuvier's letters to his friend reveal him as an exceptionally gifted young man, who at the age of nineteen had already read most of the classics of natural history. As soon as new works were published, he obtained copies and read them, commenting upon them to his German correspondent. -L. de Jussieu, but he also read Lavoisier and other chemists and physicists.
Geoffroy's first paper may in one sense be regarded as an application of Dau- 26 THE CUVIER-GEOFFROY DEBATE benton's ideas of classification, but in another sense, it signaled a potential conflict with Daubenton's strictures on the proper role of the naturalist. The Museum and other new scientific institutions created in the 1790s gave impetus to the trend, already well underway in the physical sciences, toward a more specialized research with results directed to other scientists rather than to the educated public.
There he fell gravely ill with what Isidore Geoffroy described as a "nervous fever" and did not return to Paris until winter. "25 When, in early March 1793, Lacepede found it expedient to abandon his post as keeper and subdemonstrator of the Cabinet, the opportunity arose for Daubenton to honor Hauy's request. On Hauy's recommendation, Daubenton obtained the approval of the intendant, Jacques-Henri Bernardin Saint-Pierre, and only a few days after Lacepede's resignation, had Geoffroy nominated for the post.