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Things come to life : spontaneous generation revisited / Henry Harris.
- Title
- Things come to life : spontaneous generation revisited / Henry Harris.
- Author
- Harris, Henry, 1925-2014
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2002.
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- Description
- viii, 168 p. : ill., ports.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- The question of whether spontaneous generation could exist has occupied scientists, philosophers, historians, and theologians. This book deals with the social and religious context of the debate, and examines the evidence and its probative value.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Beliefs -- Flies and other insects -- Microbes -- The battle of the flasks begins -- Materialism, for and against -- Spoilt air -- Internal parasites -- Cotton wool -- The spontaneous generation of cells -- A disagreement in the Academie -- Noxious particles -- An English Pouchet -- Seeing the floating particles -- An epilogue about another subject.
- ISBN
- 0198515383
- LCCN
- ^^2001054856
- OCLC
- 48100507
- SCSB-12237291
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library