Eighteenth-Century Anthropology

18th-Century

Anthropology

Georges de Buffon (1707-1788)

Georges Buffon, "Variétés dans l’espèce humaine," Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roy (Paris: L'Imprimerie royale, 1749), t. 3, pp. 371-530.

Georges Buffon, "Of the Varieties in the Human Species," Barr's Buffon. Buffon's Natural History Containing A Theory Of The Earth, A General History Of Man, Of The Brute Creation, And Of Vegetables, Minerals, Etc. (London: T. Gillet, 1807), vol. 4 (of 10), pp. 190-352. Transcribed by Miriam C. Meijer. Translated by BARR.

pp. 190-209 Lapps

pp. 210-229 Tartars

pp. 230-249 Chinese

pp. 250-269 Malays

pp. 270-289 Persians

pp. 290-309 Europeans

pp. 310-329 Africans

pp. 330-352 Americans

Buffon's hypothesis and conclusions

Georges Buffon, "Of the Varieties of the Human Species," Natural History: General and Particular (8 volumes, 1781). Transcribed by Fran Moran. Translated by William SMELLIE.

Georges Buffon, Discours sur le style. Discours prononcé; à l'acadèmie française par M. de Buffon le jour de sa reception le 25 aôut 1753.

Petrus Camper (1722-1789)

Petrus Camper's "On the Origin and Color of Blacks," De Rhapsodist 2 (1772): 373-394. Translated by Miriam Claude MEIJER. "Petrus Camper on the Origin and Color of Blacks," History of Anthropology Newsletter 24 (December 1997): 3-9.

"Zusatz zu der vorhergehenden Abhandlung aus einem Schreiben an die Naturforschende Gesellschaft von Petrus Camper," Schriften der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 7 (1787): 197-226. "On the Absurdity of the Supposed Unicorns." Supplement to the Preceding Treatise from a Letter to the Naturforschende Gesellschaft from Petrus Camper. Translated by Miriam Claude MEIJER.

Petrus Camper, "On the Best Form of Shoe," translated from Dutch into English by James Dowie, The Foot and Its Covering (London: Hardwicke, 1861): xxvii-44.

Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (1716-1800)

L.-J.-M. Daubenton, "Essay on the Differences of the Position of the Occipital Foramen in Man and in Animals," Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences avec les Mémoires de Mathématique & de Physique (Paris) (1764): 568-579. Translated by Miriam Claude MEIJER.