books.google.fr - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was a biological Janus, at once a highly competent taxonomist in a traditional mold and a bold, almost visionary, philosopher of nature who aspired to contrive an all-embracing "physics of the earth" by sheer force of intellect. Lamarck is generally remembered only for his ideas...https://books.google.fr/books/about/The_Spirit_of_System.html?id=JCcTDLgFjzEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Spirit of System
