Biology and its makers /

with portraits and other illustrations, by William A. Locy ...
Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Locy, William A. (William Albert), 1857-1924.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: New York : H. Holt and Company, 1908.
Subjects:
Notes:"Reading list": p. 449-460.

Physical description: xxvi, 469 p. : ill. (incl. ports. ; 23 cm. (8vo)

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505 0 |a An outline of the rise of biology and of the epochs in its history.--Vesalius and the overthrow of authority in science.--William Harvey and experimental observation.--The introduction of the microscope and the progress of independent observation.--The progress of minute anatomy.--Linnæus and scientific natural history.--Cuvier and the rise of comparative anatomy.--Bichat and the birth of histology.--The rise of physiology. Harvey. Haller. Johannes Müller.--Von Baer and the rise of embryology.--The cell-theory. Schleiden. Schwann. Schultze.--Protoplasm the physical basis of life.--The work of Pasteur, Koch, and others.--Heredity and germinal continuity. Mendel. Galton. Weismann.--The science of fossil life.--What evolution is; the evidence upon which it rests, etc.--Theories of evolution. Lamarck. Darwin.--Theories continued. Wiesmann. De Vries.--The rise of evolutionary thought.--Retrospect and prospect. Present tendencies in biology. 
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