History of biology
by L. C. Miall
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A comprehensive history of the biological sciences from antiquity to the modern eraThis book presents a global history of the biological sciences from ancient times to today, providing needed perspective on the development of biological thought while shedding light on the field's upheavals and key breakthroughs through the ages. Michel Morange brings to life the dynamic interplay of science, society, and biology’s many subdisciplines, enabling readers to better appreciate the interdisciplinary exchanges that have shaped the field over the centuries.Each chapter of this incisive book focuses on...
Chapters (56)(click to expand)
- HISTORY OF BIOLOGY
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- The Biology of the Ancients.
- Extinction of Scientific Inquiry.
- Revival of Knowledge.
- PERIOD I.
- Characteristics of the Period.
- The Revival of Botany.
- The Revival of Zoology.
- Early Notions of System.
- The First English Naturalists.
- The Rise of Experimental Physiology.
- The Natural History of Distant Lands (Sixteenth Century and Earlier).
- Agriculture, Horticulture, and Silk-Culture in the Sixteenth Century.
- PERIOD II
- Characteristics of the Period.
- The Minute Anatomists.
- Early Notions about the Nature of Fossils.
- Comparative Anatomy: the Study of Biological Types.
- Adaptations of Plants and Animals: Natural Theology.
- Spontaneous Generation.
- The Natural History of John Ray.
- The Scale of Nature.
- The Sexes of Flowering Plants.
- PERIOD III
- Characteristics of the Period.
- Systems of Flowering Plants: Linnæus and the Jussieus.
- Réaumur and the History of Insects.
- The Budding-out of New Animals (Hydra): another Form of Propagation without Mating (Aphids).
- The Historical or Comparative Method: Montesquieu and Buffon.
- Amateur Students of Living Animals.
- Intelligence and Instinct in the Lower Animals.
- The Food of Green Plants.
- The Metamorphoses of Plants.
- Early Notions about the Lower Plants.
- PERIOD IV
- Characteristics of the Period.
- Sprengel and the Fertilisation of Flowers.
- Cuvier and the Rise of Palæontology.
- Chamisso on the Alternation of Generations in Salpa.
- Baer and the Development of Animals.
- The Cell Theory.
- The Enrichment of English Gardens.
- Humboldt as a Traveller and a Biologist.
- Premonitions of Biological Evolution.
- PERIOD V
- Period V.
- Darwin on the Origin of Species.
- Pasteur's Experimental Study of Microbes.
- CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
- THE SUB-DIVISIONS OF BIOLOGY
- BIBILIOGRAPHY
- History of Biology or its Sub-Divisions.
- INDEX
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