pretergenerationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

pretergeneration (複数形 pretergenerations)

1. (まれに) Preternatural generation; monstrous birth
   • 1958, Lynn Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science: The seventeenth century:

     In the Novum Organum Bacon made a threefold division of natural history: the first being concerned with species, the second with monsters, and the third with artificial products; or the history of generation, pretergeneration and arts.

   • 2019, Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science, page 183:

     Because Bacon does not provide any analysis of pretergenerations in his natural histories, I claim that the process of generating artificial individuals that deviate from their species exhibits important aspects of Bacon's view on how nature is constrained and deviated from its own course.