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A history of biology / Michel Morange ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan & Joseph Muise.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morange, Michel, author.
- Standardized Title:
- histoire de la biologie. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Biology--History.
- Biology.
- History.
- Life sciences--History.
- Life sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 418 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Ancient Greece and Rome
- The Facts
- The Birth of Biology
- Overview of Ancient Greek and Roman Biological Sciences
- Hippocratic Medicine
- Aristotle
- Galen's Physiology
- Pliny the Elder's Natural History
- The Atomists
- Historical Overview
- The Role of Experimentation in Greek Science and Particularly in Life Sciences
- Anaximander and the Atomists: The Futile Search for Pioneers
- Contemporary Relevance
- Mechanistic and Molecular Explanations
- The Role of Analogy
- The Beginnings of the Chain of Being
- Pliny's Legacy
- Ever-Present Finalism
- 2. The Middle Ages and Arab-Muslim Science
- The Arab-Muslim World
- The Middle Ages in the West
- Scientific Progress Is Not a Given
- Less Obvious Contributions to the Development of Science
- 3. The Renaissance (Sixteenth Century)
- Progress in Anatomy and Depictions of the Human Body
- Books on Natural History
- Alchemy in Medicine: From Paracelsus to Van Helmont
- A Fascination with Dissections
- The Role of Alchemy
- Changes in the Social Structure of Science
- Contemporary Relevance
- Finding the Right Distance from the Past
- New Techniques Bring New Sources of Error
- Aging as a Form of Poisoning
- 4. The Age of Classicism (Seventeenth Century)
- The Discovery of Circulation
- The Development of Quantitative Experiments
- The Invention of the Microscope and Its Consequences
- The Not-So-Obvious Case of Circulation
- The Mechanistic Model of Life and Its Limitations
- The Incomprehensible Theory of Preformationism
- Invisible and Indirect Changes
- The Machines in Front of Us
- Vestiges of Preformation Theory
- Accepting the Plurality of Approaches in Biology
- Translational Medicine Is Not New
- 5. The Enlightenment (Eighteenth Century)
- Vitalism
- Classification: Linnaeus versus Buffon
- Reproductive Physiology
- The Role of Breathing Becomes Clear
- Variations on Vitalism
- Classification versus Evolution
- Classifying Humans
- Priestley and Lavoisier: Only the First Step
- A Natural Classification?
- Comparing Plants and Animals
- Maupertuis, the Father of Self-Organization?
- 6. The Nineteenth Century (Part I): Embryology, Cell Biology, Microbiology, and Physiology
- Embryology Becomes an Established Discipline
- The Emergence of Cell Theory
- The Rise of Germ Theory
- Physiology's Golden Age
- The Roots of Cell Theory
- Scholars Trapped by Their Own Philosophical Ideas?
- The Tension between Chemical Explanations and Structural Models
- Was Embryology Holding Out for Evolution?
- 1859: A Remarkable Year
- The Disappearance of Traditional Disciplines in Biology
- Notes:
- Translated from French into English.
- Originally published in French as Une histoire de la biologie by Éditions du Seuil, 2016.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 10, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Morange, Michel. A history of biology
- ISBN:
- 9780691188782
- 0691188785
- Publisher Number:
- 99987692998
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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