A history of biology/ Michel Morange ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan & Joseph Muise.

Fagan Teresa Lavender; Morange  Michel

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dc.contributor.author	Morange Michel
dc.contributor.author	Fagan Teresa Lavender
dc.date.accessioned	2024-01-29T23:31:18Z
dc.date.available	2024-01-29T23:31:18Z
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.identifier.citation	Morange. A history of biology - 1 online resource (xxiii, 418 pages) - URL: https://libweb.kpfu.ru/ebsco/pdf/2698466.pdf
dc.identifier.isbn	9780691188782
dc.identifier.isbn	0691188785
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.kpfu.ru/xmlui/handle/net/182404
dc.description	Translated from French into English.
dc.description	Originally published in French as Une histoire de la biologie by Éditions du Seuil, 2016.
dc.description	Includes bibliographical references and index.
dc.description.abstract	"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 as ecology, ethology (the study of non-human animal behavior), and plant biology-areas which are covered in this work. The broad, global perspective offered here will allow the reader to better appreciate the nature of the interdisciplinary exchanges that have shaped the biological sciences, perhaps more than any other discipline. Much attention is also given to the contribution of technology, the role of experimentation, and, more generally, the social and technological environment within which scientific transformations develop"--
dc.description.tableofcontents	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
dc.description.tableofcontents	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
dc.description.tableofcontents	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
dc.description.tableofcontents	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?
dc.description.tableofcontents	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
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en
dc.subject.other	Biology -- History.
dc.subject.other	Life sciences -- History.
dc.subject.other	SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology
dc.subject.other	Biology
dc.subject.other	Life sciences
dc.subject.other	Electronic books.
dc.subject.other	History
dc.title	A history of biology/ Michel Morange ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan & Joseph Muise.
dc.type	Book
dc.description.pages	1 online resource (xxiii, 418 pages)
dc.collection	Электронно-библиотечные системы
dc.source.id	EN05CEBSCO05C4528