Work in Progress© by Miriam Claude Meijer, Ph.D.

The Descendants of Adam: Enlightenment Anthropology,
by Miriam Claude Meijer, Ph.D. $In 1666 Sir Isaac Newton used a glass prism to refract white light at different angles according to wave length. He saw a rainbow of colors, which he passed through a second prism to re-form white light. He concluded that white light is a mixture of all the colors of the visible spectrum.$

Table of Contents:

Adam and Eve
Genesis: Epigenesis, Degeneration, Monogenism.
Monism: Cartesianism, Passions, Nerves.
Angles: Optic, Occipital, Facial.
Metamorphoses: Primate, Physiognomical, Aging.
Venus: Classical, Earthly, Hottentot.
Paradise Moved

Reader for The Descendants of Adam of primary texts, all newly translated into unabridged contemporary American English by Miriam Claude Meijer, Ph.D.:

Table of Contents:

Maupertuis's Earthly Venus
Buffon's "Varieties of the Human Species"
- Lapps
- Tartars
- Chinese
- Malays
- Persians
- Europeans
- hypothesis
- Africans
- Americans
- conclusions
Daubenton's "Memoir on the Different Positions of the Occipital Foramen in Man and Animals"
B.S. Albinus's "On the Seat and Cause of the Color of Ethiopians"
Petrus Camper's Facial Angle
Vosmaer's "Orang-Utang"
Blumenbach's "Bildungstrieb"
Soemmerring's "Moor"
Herder's Ideen - certain sections only
Glossary of European Concepts of the Non-European

Empiricism and Natural Philosophy by Petrus Camper,
translated into English by Jacob van Sluis, Ph.D. and Miriam Claude Meijer, Ph.D.

Table of Contents:

"Biography of Petrus Camper" by Adriaan Gilles Camper (1791), trans. from Dutch by Meijer
"On the Best World" (#137), trans. from Latin by Van Sluis
"Introduction to Philosophy" (#137), Van Sluis
"On Certainty in Medicine" (#4), Van Sluis
"On the Remarkable Analogy between Plantshoots and Animals" (#17), Van Sluis
"Oration on Beauty" (ms.), Van Sluis
"On Physical Beauty" (#119c), trans. from Dutch by Meijer — images
"Investigation on Whether the Art of Judging Human Character from Exterior Appearance Could be Further Perfected" (#47), Meijer
"On the Excellence of Mankind over all other Animals" (ms.), Meijer
"On the Folly of Most Natural History Amateurs to be Satisfied with the Division in 'Classes' and 'Genera' and the Absurdity Which Lies in Linnaeus's System" (#27), Meijer
"On the Moral Education of Children" (#21, #23, #25, #26, #28, #29, #31, #33, #34, and #35), Meijer
"On the Best Form of Shoe" (#92), a new (unabridged) trans. from Dutch by Meijer