FORSTER,GEORG TEXTBOOK FOR A ALLGEMEINE-N ATURGESCHICHTE (1786-1793) AND HIS DISCUSSION OF WOLFF,CASPAR,FRIEDRICH THEORY OF EPIGENESIS

Authors
JAHN I
Citation
I. Jahn, FORSTER,GEORG TEXTBOOK FOR A ALLGEMEINE-N ATURGESCHICHTE (1786-1793) AND HIS DISCUSSION OF WOLFF,CASPAR,FRIEDRICH THEORY OF EPIGENESIS, Biologisches Zentralblatt, 114(2), 1995, pp. 200-206
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Biology
Journal title
Biologisches Zentralblatt → ACNP
ISSN journal
00063304
Volume
114
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
200 - 206
Database
ISI
SICI code
0006-3304(1995)114:2<200:FTFAAA>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
G. FORSTER'S activities and conceptions on lectures and textbooks abou t a general natural history have not been published during his lifetim e. Manuscripts are preserved in the Museum d'histoire naturelle in Par is. In one of them FORSTER not only mentioned C. E WOLFF'S theorie of epigenesis, like BLUMENBACH, but discussed at large pro and contra of WOLFF'S theorie.