Biology in the Nineteenth Century: Problems of Form, Function and Transformation - Couverture souple

Coleman, William

 
9780521292931: Biology in the Nineteenth Century: Problems of Form, Function and Transformation
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 052129293X ISBN 13 : 9780521292931
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1978

Synopsis

The term 'biology' first appeared in a footnote in an obscure German medical publication of 1800, but a century of subsequent activity was needed to create a thriving science. This book offers a concise yet comprehensive examination of essential themes in this development. To one group of nineteenth-century biologists, largely comprised of anatomists, histologists and embryologists, the appearance and constituent structures of the plant or animal body seemed all-important; they studied organic form and the means by which it was brought into being. A second group concentrated on the vital processes diversely exhibited by all living creatures. They studied function, their self-assigned task as physiologists being to understand the innermost workings of the body. To a third group of workers the greatest concern was the relationship, past and present, between the various kinds of plants and animals and between living things and their changing environment; in studying the transformation of life over vast spans of time, they largely recast the scientific objectives of natural history. Form, function, and transformation thus offer useful vantage points from which to observe the development of the life sciences during the nineteenth century, and it is on a discussion of these themes and their interactions that Professor Coleman's account is based.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The term 'biology' first appeared in a footnote in an obscure German medical publication of 1800, but a century of subsequent activity was needed to create a thriving science. This book offers a concise yet comprehensive examination of essential themes in this development. To one group of nineteenth-century biologists, largely comprised of anatomists, histologists and embryologists, the appearance and constituent structures of the plant or animal body seemed all-important; they studied organic form and the means by which it was brought into being. A second group concentrated on the vital processes diversely exhibited by all living creatures. They studied function, their self-assigned task as physiologists being to understand the innermost workings of the body. To a third group of workers the greatest concern was the relationship, past and present, between the various kinds of plants and animals and between living things and their changing environment; in studying the transformation of life over vast spans of time, they largely recast the scientific objectives of natural history. Form, function, and transformation thus offer useful vantage points from which to observe the development of the life sciences during the nineteenth century, and it is on a discussion of these themes and their interactions that Professor Coleman's account is based.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1978
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
052129293X
ISBN 13 
9780521292931
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
200
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9780471164975: Biology in the Nineteenth Century: Problems of Form, Function and Transformation

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0471164976 ISBN 13 :  9780471164975
Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1971
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