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The mechanistic conception of life : biological essays / by Jacques Loeb.
Gale Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology and Medicine, 1780-1925 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Loeb, Jacques, 1859-1924.
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Life (Biology).
- Biology.
- Biology--Philosophy.
- Mechanism (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([6], 232 p.) : ill.
- Other Title:
- Mechanistic conception of life
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1912.
- 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 an egg through the act of fertilization
- The role of salts in the preservation of life
- Experimental study of the influence of environment on animals.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.
- OCLC:
- 1111290836
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