Matter, Life, and Generation
Subtitle: Eighteenth-Century Embryology and the Haller-Wolff Debate
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 13, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780521525251
Subjects: Developmental biology; History of science; Science; Science/Mathematics; History; Science / History
First sentence: In 1683, the French savant Bernard de Fontenelle offered the following rejoinder to the mechanical physiology of this day: "Do you say that beasts are machines just as watches are?