The mechanistic conception of life
Subtitle: biological essays
By: by Jacques Loeb
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1912
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Life (Biology); Biology; Philosophy; Mechanism (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes index.

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.
Table of contents: title: The mechanistic conception of life; title: The significance of tropisms for psychology; title: Some fundamental facts and conceptions concerning the comparative physiology of the central nervous system; title: Pattern adaptation of fishes and the mechanism of vision; title: On some facts and principles of physiological morphology; title: On the nature of the process of fertilization; title: On the nature of formative stimulation (artificial parthenogenesis); title: The prevention of the death of an egg through the act of fertilization; title: The role of salts in the preservation of life; title: Experimental study of the influence of environment on animals.