Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields
Subtitle: Metaphors that Shape Embryos
Contributors: Scott Gilbert (Foreword)
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: February 12, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781556434747
Subjects: Science: General Issues; Science; Philosophy Of Biology; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Science / Biology; Life Sciences - Biology - Developmental Biology; Biology; Philosophy
First sentence: "If the history of science were a disinterested, purely descriptive account of objective operations performed to elucidate the workings of a nature no one believed in anymore, it would raise few passions."