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Jorge Canizares-Esguerra
488 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780804740845
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: Not specified
Description
In the mid-eighteenth century, the French naturalist Buffon contended that the New World was in fact geologically new--that it had recently emerged from the waters--and that dangerous miasmas had caused all organic life on the continents to degene...
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Jorge Canizares-Esguerra
488 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780804740845
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: Not specified
Description
In the mid-eighteenth century, the French naturalist Buffon contended that the New World was in fact geologically new--that it had recently emerged from the waters--and that dangerous miasmas had caused all organic life on the continents to degene...