The Epic History of Biology
By Anthony Serafini.
Plenum Press
ISBN: 0-306-44511-5. 406 pp. 1993 LC: 93-27895.
Domestic price: $27.95 (US and Canada)
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*** Description ***
"Its panoramic scope and its sharply focused intellectual
vision
provide a uniquely challenging and readable journey through the
biological landscape. I am enthusiastically recommending this
incredible work to my faculty and students." -- Dorothy D.
Prisco,
Vice President and Dean, Wesley College, Delaware
"It brings together the ideas of the important thinkers in all
the
biological sciences throughout history. This is a pioneering
and
unique effort."Philip J. Pauly, Department of History, Rutgers
University, New Jersey
*** Contents ***
The Beginnings. Mesopotamia. Greek Medicine. Rome. The Middle
Ages. The Renaissance. Pestilence in the Renaissance. The Age
of
Vesalius. The Harvey Era. The Age of Newton. The Microscope and
Leeuwenhoek. The Meeting of Biology and Chemistry. Ray and the
Emergence of Cell Theory. The Age of Linnaeus and the
Enlightenment. Lamarck and His System. The Rise of
Paleontology.
Biology in the Victorian Era. Darwin and His Age. Embryology
and
Biochemistry in the Darwinian Era. The Age of Pasteur and the
Maturity of the Microscope. Biology in the Twentieth Century.
T.H.
Morgan and the Rise of Genetics. On the Trail of DNA. Evolution
and Genetic Engineering. Epilogue.
*** Subject(s) ***
Biology; medicine; chemistry
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