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Biology and its makers : with portraits and other illustrations
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Biology and its makers : with portraits and other illustrations

Author: William A Locy
Publisher: New York : Henry Holt, [1928, ©1908]
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 3rd ed., revView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Biography
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Locy, William A. (William Albert), 1857-1924.
Biology and its makers.
New York : Henry Holt, [1928, c1908]
(OCoLC)642442215
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: William A Locy
OCLC Number: 7131460
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xxvi, 477 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
Contents: An outline of the rise of biology and of the epochs in its history.--Vesalius and the overthrow of authority in science.--William Harvey and experimental observation.--The introduction of the microscope and the progress of independent observation.--The progress of minute anatomy.--Linnæus and scientific natural history.--Cuvier and the rise of comparative anatomy.--Bichat and the birth of histology.--The rise of physiology. Harvey. Haller. Johannes Müller.--Von Baer and the rise of embryology.--The cell-theory. Schleiden. Schwann. Schultze.--Protoplasm and physical basis of life.--The work of Pasteur, Koch, and others.--Heredity and germinal continuity. Mendel. Galton. Weismann.--The science of fossil life.--What evolution is; the evidence upon which it rests, etc.--Theories of evolution. Lamarck. Darwin.--Theories continued. Weismann. De Vries.--The rise of evolutionary thought.--Retrospect and prospect. Present tendencies in biology.
Responsibility: by William A. Locy.

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