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These valuable essays will enrich specialists' understanding of the 17th-century dynamics that produced what has become biology. Choice This anthology will be welcomed by philosophers and historians of science. Jeremy Kirby, The Quarterly Review of Biology

It merits the attention of anyone interested in the philosophical aspects of early modern science. * Antonio Clerocuzio, British Journal for the History of Science * This anthology will be welcomed by philosophers and historians of science. * Jeremy Kirby, The Quarterly Review of Biology * These valuable essays will enrich specialists' understanding of the 17th-century dynamics that produced what has become biology. * Choice *

These valuable essays will enrich specialists' understanding of the 17th-century dynamics that produced what has become biology. Choice

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Ohad Nachtomy is Associate Professor at Bar-Ilan University and at Fordham University. He is the author of Possibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz's Metaphysics (2007); ""Leibniz on Nested Individuals""(BJHP 2007); ""Leibniz and the Logic of Life""(Studia Leibnitiana 2010); ""Leibniz on Artificial and Natural Machines"" in Machines of Nature and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz (co-edited with Justin Smith) (2010); and ""A Tale Of Two Thinkers, One Meeting, and Three Degrees Of Infinity: Leibniz And Spinoza in 1675-78"" (BJHP 2011). Justin E. H. Smith is university professor of the history and philosophy of science at the University of Paris 7. He is the author of Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life (2011) and of the forthcoming Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Early Modern Philosophy and the Concept of Race. He has also recently edited and translated, with François Duchesneau, Georg Ernst Stahl's Negotium otiosum (forthcoming).

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