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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
  • Spontaneous generation
  • Life > Origin
  • Biology > history
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