![]() ![]() 4 The preeminent historian of the eighteenth-century life sciences, Jacques Roger, did not consider this work a work at all, but rather, ‘ notes de travail rassemblées sous le titre d’ Éléments de physiologie ’. ![]() edition would implicitly disagree with that earlier statement, stating that ‘Diderot avait poussé le travail jusqu’à l’achèvement’, although he continued to maintain that the Éléments ‘souffrent visiblement d’une documentation scientifique encombrante et mal dominée’ 3 and that we should not be unduly concerned if Diderot contradicts himself as these are only his reading notes. 6 Roger, Les sciences de la vie, p. 672.Ģ Jean Mayer, authority on Diderot and science, and twice editor (1964, 1987) of the mature version of the Éléments brought to light in the Vandeul archive by Herbert Dieckmann in 1948, states in his book Diderot, homme de science (1959) that the Éléments de physiologie display ‘toutes les imperfections de l’inachèvement’.5 Jacques Roger, Les sciences de la vie dans la pensée Française du XVIIIe siècle: la génération des (.).4 ‘Mais ce sont là des notes de lecture: Diderot ne souscrit pas à toutes les opinions qu’il rapporte (.).Later statements in the editions themselves show that May (.) 2 Mayer, Diderot, homme de science, p. 273. ![]()
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