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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Al-Ghazali, The Destruction of Philosophers (Tahafut al-
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text is adapted from D'Arcy W. Thompson's version in the
Oxford translation of Aristotle's works under the general
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(Ibn Rushd), The Destruction of the Destruction (Tahafut
al-Tahafut), trans. S. van Bergh (London, 1954); this is a
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(London, 1687) is briefly
identified as Principia. Gavin de Beer, Charles Darwin
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David Eugene Smith and M. L. Latham (Chicago, 1925).
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SALOMON BOCHNER

[See also Baconianism; Cycles; Historiography; Infinity;
Platonism; Pragmatism; Pre-Platonic Conceptions; Progress;
Pythagorean...; Revolution; Uniformitarianism and Ca-
tastrophism.
]