Bonnet, Charles

MJ Ratcliff, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002369

1720–1793A Geneva (now part of Switzerland) naturalist and philosopher who discovered the parthenogenesis of aphids.1

Figure 1. Charles Bonnet (1720–1793).

Keywords: parthenogenesis; aphid; philosophy of nature; experimental method

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Further Reading
	book Bonnet C (1745) Traité d'insectologie ou observations sur les pucerons. Amsterdam: Luzac.
	book Bonnet C (1766) The Contemplation of Nature. London: T Becket & PA de Hondt (original French: 1764).
	book Anderson L (1984) Charles Bonnet and the Order of the Known. Boston: D Reidel.
	book Buscaglia M, Sigrist R, Trembley J and Wuest J (eds) (1994) Charles Bonnet Savant et Philosophe (1720–1793). Genève: Passé-Présent (Mém. SPHN Genève: 47).
	book Dawson VP (1988) "The scientist in shirt-sleeves: Charles Bonnet's letters on parthenogenesis". In: Mell DC, Braun TE and Palmer LM (eds) Man, God, and Nature in the Enlightenment, pp. 193–203. East Lansing, MI: Colleagues Press.
	book Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1970–1980) Gillispie CC (ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
	book Grober MC (1990) Charles Bonnet of Geneva: from natural history to metaphysical romance. Berkeley, CA: UMI Dissertation Service.
	Ratcliff MJ and Buscaglia M (1997) Chercheur, observateur et monde savant: La recherche scientifique dans l'imaginaire de Charles Bonnet. Nuncius 12(2): 329–358.