"A Risky Adventure of Reason" is how I. Kant described the first, pre-Darwinian attempts to build an evolutionary picture of the world.
But you could say that the whole story of the development of the idea of evolution in embryology (K. Wolff, L. Oken, I. V. Göте), astronomy (I. Kant), geology (Ch. Lyell), philosophy (I. Kant, I. G. Herder, F. Schelling, G. G. Hegel) is a chain of risky adventures of reason—often leading to irreconcilable clashes and open struggle.
A scientific and literary book intended for a wide range of readers.