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001357279 1001_ $$aMorange, Michel,$$eauthor.
001357279 24010 $$ahistoire de la biologie.$$lEnglish
001357279 24512 $$aA history of biology /$$cMichel Morange ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan & Joseph Muise.
001357279 264_1 $$aPrinceton, New Jersey :$$bPrinceton University Press,$$c[2021]
001357279 300__ $$a1 online resource (xxiii, 418 pages)
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001357279 500__ $$aTranslated from French into English.
001357279 500__ $$aOriginally published in French as Une histoire de la biologie by Éditions du Seuil, 2016.
001357279 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
001357279 5050_ $$aCover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Ancient Greece and Rome -- The Facts -- The Birth of Biology -- Overview of Ancient Greek and Roman Biological Sciences -- Hippocratic Medicine -- Aristotle -- Galen's Physiology -- Pliny the Elder's Natural History -- The Atomists -- Historical Overview -- The Role of Experimentation in Greek Science and Particularly in Life Sciences -- Anaximander and the Atomists: The Futile Search for Pioneers -- Contemporary Relevance -- Mechanistic and Molecular Explanations -- The Role of Analogy -- The Beginnings of the Chain of Being -- Pliny's Legacy
001357279 5058_ $$aEver-Present Finalism -- 2. The Middle Ages and Arab-Muslim Science -- The Facts -- The Arab-Muslim World -- The Middle Ages in the West -- Historical Overview -- Contemporary Relevance -- Scientific Progress Is Not a Given -- Less Obvious Contributions to the Development of Science -- 3. The Renaissance (Sixteenth Century) -- The Facts -- Progress in Anatomy and Depictions of the Human Body -- Books on Natural History -- Alchemy in Medicine: From Paracelsus to Van Helmont -- Historical Overview -- A Fascination with Dissections -- The Role of Alchemy -- Changes in the Social Structure of Science
001357279 5058_ $$aContemporary Relevance -- Finding the Right Distance from the Past -- New Techniques Bring New Sources of Error -- Aging as a Form of Poisoning -- 4. The Age of Classicism (Seventeenth Century) -- The Facts -- The Discovery of Circulation -- The Development of Quantitative Experiments -- The Invention of the Microscope and Its Consequences -- Historical Overview -- The Not-So-Obvious Case of Circulation -- The Mechanistic Model of Life and Its Limitations -- The Incomprehensible Theory of Preformationism -- Invisible and Indirect Changes -- Contemporary Relevance -- The Machines in Front of Us
001357279 5058_ $$aVestiges of Preformation Theory -- Accepting the Plurality of Approaches in Biology -- Translational Medicine Is Not New -- 5. The Enlightenment (Eighteenth Century) -- The Facts -- Vitalism -- Classification: Linnaeus versus Buffon -- Reproductive Physiology -- The Role of Breathing Becomes Clear -- Historical Overview -- Variations on Vitalism -- Classification versus Evolution -- Classifying Humans -- Priestley and Lavoisier: Only the First Step -- Contemporary Relevance -- A Natural Classification? -- Comparing Plants and Animals -- Maupertuis, the Father of Self-Organization?
001357279 5058_ $$a6. The Nineteenth Century (Part I): Embryology, Cell Biology, Microbiology, and Physiology -- The Facts -- Embryology Becomes an Established Discipline -- The Emergence of Cell Theory -- The Rise of Germ Theory -- Physiology's Golden Age -- Historical Overview -- The Roots of Cell Theory -- Scholars Trapped by Their Own Philosophical Ideas? -- The Tension between Chemical Explanations and Structural Models -- Was Embryology Holding Out for Evolution? -- 1859: A Remarkable Year -- Contemporary Relevance -- The Disappearance of Traditional Disciplines in Biology
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001357279 533__ $$aElectronic reproduction.$$bAnn Arbor, MI$$nAvailable via World Wide Web.
001357279 588__ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 10, 2021).
001357279 650_0 $$aBiology$$xHistory.
001357279 650_0 $$aLife sciences$$xHistory.
001357279 655_0 $$aElectronic books
001357279 7001_ $$aFagan, Teresa Lavender;$$etranslator.
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001357279 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aMorange, Michel.$$tA history of biology$$dPrinceton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]$$z9780691175409$$w(DLC)  2020035292
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