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The gestation of German biology
Animism and organism: G.E. Stahl and the Halle medical faculty
Making life science Newtonian: Albrecht von Haller's self-fashioning as natural scientist
Albrecht von Haller as arbiter of German medicine: Göttingen and Bern (1736-1777)
French vital materialism
Taking up the French challenge: the German response
From natural history to history of nature: from Buffon to Kant and Herder (and Blumenbach)
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and the life sciences in Germany: his rise to eminence from the 1770s
Blumenbach, Kant, and the "daring adventure" of an "archaeology of nature"
Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer and "an entirely new epoch of natural history"
Polarität und Steigerung: the self-organization of nature and the actualization of life
Naturphilosophie and physiology.
Animism and organism: G.E. Stahl and the Halle medical faculty
Making life science Newtonian: Albrecht von Haller's self-fashioning as natural scientist
Albrecht von Haller as arbiter of German medicine: Göttingen and Bern (1736-1777)
French vital materialism
Taking up the French challenge: the German response
From natural history to history of nature: from Buffon to Kant and Herder (and Blumenbach)
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and the life sciences in Germany: his rise to eminence from the 1770s
Blumenbach, Kant, and the "daring adventure" of an "archaeology of nature"
Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer and "an entirely new epoch of natural history"
Polarität und Steigerung: the self-organization of nature and the actualization of life
Naturphilosophie and physiology.