Science as a way of knowing : the foundations of modern biology /
Moore, John Alexander,1915-
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press,
1993.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [509]-522) and index.
The antecedents of scientific thought -- Aristotle and the Greek view of nature -- Those rational Greeks? -- The Judeo-Christian worldview -- The revival of science -- Figur'd stones and plastick virtue -- The paradigm of evolution -- Testing Darwin's hypotheses -- In the light of evolution -- Life over time -- Pangenesis -- The cell theory -- The hypothesis of chromosomal continuity -- Mendel and the birth of genetics -- Genetics + cytology : 1900-1910 -- The genetics of the fruit fly -- The structure and function of genes -- First principles -- The century of discovery -- Descriptive embryology -- The dawn of analytical embryology -- Interactions during development.
Biology
Biology