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The mechanistic conception of life.

Title
The mechanistic conception of life. Edited by Donald Fleming.
Author
Loeb, Jacques, 1859-1924.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.

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Description
xlii, 216 pages illustrations; 22 cm.
Series Statement
The John Harvard library
Uniform Title
John Harvard library.
Subject
  • Life (Biology)
  • Biology
  • Biology > Philosophy
  • Mechanism (Philosophy)
  • Life > Origin
  • Origin of Life
  • Biology
  • biology
  • Biology > Philosophy
  • Biologie > Philosophie
  • Vie (biologie)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
The mechanistic conception of life -- The significance of tropisms for psychology -- Some fundamental facts and conceptions concerning the comparative physiology of the central nervous system -- Pattern adaptation of fishes and the mechanism of vision -- On some facts and principles of physiological morphology -- On the nature of the process of fertilization -- On the nature of formative stimulation (artificial parthenogenesis) -- The prevention of the death of the egg through the act of fertilization -- The role of salts in the preservation of life -- Experimental study of the influence of environment on animals.
ISBN
  • 0674559509
  • 9780674559509
  • 9780674864313
  • 067486431X
LCCN
  • 64013426
  • 10.4159/harvard.9780674864313
OCLC
  • ocm00184862
  • 184862
  • SCSB-140034
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library