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Heat and Life : The Development of the Theory of Animal Heat / Everett Mendelsohn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mendelsohn, Everett, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animal heat.
- Body temperature--Regulation.
- Body temperature.
- History of Medicine.
- Lichaamstemperatuur.
- Theorieën.
- Tiere (Zoologie).
- Body Temperature.
- Local Subjects:
- Animal heat.
- Body Temperature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- I. Introduction
- II. "Innate" Heat
- III. Prototheories
- IV. "Millstones in the Stomach"
- V. Respiration and Combustion
- VI. From Analogy to Chemistry
- VII. Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-18084-4
- OCLC:
- 1013954662
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