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Biology and Its Makers

by William A. Locy

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  1. 1Dedication
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Contents
  4. 4Part I — The Sources of Biological Ideas Except Those of Organic Ev…
  5. 5Chapter II — Vesalius and the Overthrow of Authority in Science
  6. 6Chapter III — William Harvey and Experimental Observation
  7. 7Chapter IV — The Introduction of the Microscope and the Progress of…
  8. 8Chapter V — The Progress of Minute Anatomy
  9. 9Chapter VI — Linnæus and Scientific Natural History
  10. 10Chapter VII — Cuvier and the Rise of Comparative Anatomy
  11. 11Chapter VIII — Bichat and the Birth of Histology
  12. 12Chapter IX — The Rise of Physiology
  13. 13Chapter X — Von Baer and the Rise of Embryology
  14. 14Chapter XI — The Cell Theory — Schleiden, Schwann, Schultze
  15. 15Chapter XII — Protoplasm, the Physical Basis of Life
  16. 16Chapter XIII — The Work of Pasteur, Koch, and Others
  17. 17Chapter XIV — Heredity and Germinal Continuity — Mendel, Galton, We…
  18. 18Chapter XV — The Science of Fossil Life
  19. 19Part II — The Doctrine of Organic Evolution
  20. 20Chapter XVII — Theories of Evolution: Lamarck, Darwin
  21. 21Chapter XVIII — Theories of Evolution Continued: Weismann, de Vries
  22. 22Chapter XIX — The Rise of Evolutionary Thought
  23. 23Chapter XX — Retrospect and Prospect. Recent Tendencies in Biology
  24. 24Reading List
  25. 25Chapter I
  26. 26Chapter II
  27. 27Chapter III
  28. 28Chapter IV
  29. 29Chapter V
  30. 30Chapter VI
  31. 31Chapter VII
  32. 32Chapter VIII
  33. 33Chapter IX
  34. 34Chapter X
  35. 35Chapter XI
  36. 36Chapter XII
  37. 37Chapter XIII
  38. 38Chapter XIV
  39. 39Chapter XV
  40. 40Chapter XVI
  41. 41Chapter XVII
  42. 42Chapter XVIII
  43. 43Chapter XIX
  44. 44Chapter XX

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