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The rise of experimental biology : an illustrated history

Title: The rise of experimental biology : an illustrated history / Peter L. Lutz.
Author: Lutz, Peter L.
Publication: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2002.

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xiii, 200 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Subject

Biology, Experimental > History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Bob Boutilier -- 1. Introduction: Science Is Improbable -- 2. The Beginnings. Myth and Magic. Mesopotamia. Egypt -- 3. Early Greek Science. The Milesians. The Post-Milesians. The Soul. Summary -- 4. The Age of Plato and Aristotle. Plato and Theory. Aristotle and Observation -- 5. The Alexandrian Period: The Age of the Experiment and the Textbook -- 6. The Roman Period. Celsus. Pliny. Galen -- 7. The Middle Ages -- 8. Islamic Science -- 9. Scholasticism and Science -- 10. Renaissance I: The Birth of Science -- 11. Renaissance II: The Birth of Experimental Biology -- 12. The New Physiology. Iatrochemistry. Iatrophysics -- 13. The Technology, New Physiology. The New World of the Very Small: The Microscope. Vital Air: The Development of Pumps and Early Theories of Respiration. The Thermometer and Body Heat -- 14. Reaction and Opposition -- 15. The Enlightenment and Rational Biology. Rational Biology. The Emergence of Physiology --
16. Transition to the Nineteenth Century: Popular Science, Eccentric Science, and Romantic Physiology. Hunter and Spallanzani: The Last Great All-Rounders. The Science Museum: Collecting and Displaying. Romantic Physiology -- 17. Consolidation of Experimental Biology. Respiration. Metabolic Chemistry. Internal Secretions. Renal Physiology. Digestion. Benefits. New Fields -- 18. Evolution and Physiology -- 19. Physiology Abused. Gullibility. Reckless Intervention. Evolutionary Genetics and Social Repression -- 20. Today. What is Science? Biology Today.

ISBN

0896038351 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001039830

OCLC

47894348
ocm47894348
SCSB-4282842

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Columbia University Libraries