Biology and its makers
By: with portraits and other illustrations, by William A. Locy ...
Publisher: H. Holt and Company
Published: 1908
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 469
Subjects: Biology -- History
Notes: "Reading list": p. 449-460.
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: The introduction of the microscope and the progress of independent observation.; title: The progress of minute anatomy.; title: Linnæus and scientific natural history.; title: Cuvier and the rise of comparative anatomy.; title: Bichat and the birth of histology.; title: The rise of physiology. Harvey. Haller. Johannes Müller.; title: Von Baer and the rise of embryology.; title: The cell-theory. Schleiden. Schwann. Schultze.; title: Protoplasm the 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 life.; title: What evolution is; the evidence upon which it rests, etc.; title: Theories of evolution. Lamarck. Darwin.; title: Theories continued. Wiesmann. De Vries.; title: The rise of evolutionary thought.; title: Retrospect and prospect. Present tendencies in biology.