Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Type post Author Daniel Witt Date May 28, 2025 CategoriesEvolutionHistory of ScienceLife Sciences Tagged , Age of Exploration, animals, Arthur Lovejoy, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, civilization, Darwinism, Edward Young, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolutionary theories, F. W. J. Schelling, French Revolution, Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, James Burnett, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste Robinet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lord Monboddo, Michael Flannery, Night-Thoughts, P.T. Barnum, philosophers, Robert Richards, scientific paradigms, sea creaturess, The Discarded Image, The Great Chain of Being, University of Chicago, worldview, Zoonomia Before Darwin — How Evolution Evolved Daniel Witt May 28, 2025 Evolution, History of Science, Life Sciences 13 The soil was prepared — soon, seeds were sprouting. In roughly the third quarter of the 18th century, evolutionary theories of biology proliferated. Read More ›