Biology and its makers
By: with portraits and other illustrations, by William A. Locy.
Edition: 3rd ed. rev.
Publisher: H. Holt
Published: 1915
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 477
Subjects: Biology -- History
Table of contents: title: An outline of the rise of biology and of the epochs in its history.; title: Vesalius and the overthrow of authority in science.; title: William Harvey and experimental observation.; title: Tbhe introduction of the microscope and the progress of independent observation.; title: The progress of minute anatomy.; title: Linnaeus and scientific natural history.; title: Cuvier and the rise of comparative anatomyy; title: Bichat and the birth of histology.; title: The rise physiology. Harvey. Haller. Johannes Müller.; title: Van Baer and te rise of embryology.; title: The cell-theory. Schleiden. Schwann. Schultze.; title: Protoplasm te physical basis of life.; title: The work of Pasteur, Koch, and others.; title: Heredity and germinal continuity. Mendel. Galton. Weismann.; title: The science of fossil like.; title: What evolution is; the evidence upon which it rests, etc.; title: Theories of evolution. Lamarck. Darwin.; title: Theories continued. Weismann. De Vries.; title: The rise of evolutionary thought.; title: Retrospect and prospect. Present tendencies in biology.