A history of biology

A history of biology

"This book presents a complete, global history of the biological sciences from ancient times to today-introducing a long-term perspective to the history of biological thought, while showing its fractures and upheavals through the ages. The history of biology often neglects certain areas, such a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morange, Michel
Other Authors: Fagan, Teresa Lavender
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey Princeton University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Biology > History.
Life sciences > History.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology
Biology
Life sciences
EBSCO eBooks
Online Access:https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/2698466.pdf
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • 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
  • Ever-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
  • Contemporary 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
  • Vestiges 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?
  • 6. 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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