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xii, 539 pages : illustrations (including portraits) ; 21 cm |
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Classification: from Aristotle to Linnaeus -- Observation and experiment: Vesalius and Harvey -- The cell theory: Hooke, Brown, Schleiden, Schwann, and Purkinje -- Learning from fossils: Cuvier and Agassiz -- Explaining the origin of species: Lamarck and Darwin -- "Diverse recipes": Galton, Mendel, Weismann, De Vries, and Morgan -- Made-to-order plants: Grew, Kolreuter, and Burbank -- Before and after the germ theory: Jenner, Pasteur, Koch, and Lister -- Malaria. yellow fever, and viruses: Ross, Gorgas, Reed, and Stanley -- Ticks, worms, and insects: Smith, Stiles, and Howard -- Antitoxins, toxin-antitoxins, and serums: Roux, Von Behring, Ehrlich, and Flexner -- Blood will tell: Mechnikov and Landsteiner -- Conquerors of pain: Long, Morton, and Simpson -- Every green leaf is a chemical factory: Ingenhousz, Sachs, Willstätter, and Conant -- Calories and vitamins: Rubner, Benedict, McCollum, and Evans -- Tropisms and regeneration: Loeb, Jennings, and Spemann -- Chemical messengers: Kendall, Bayliss, Starling, and Banting -- Nerves and muscles in reactions: Pavlov, Hill, Sherrington, and Adrian -- Protozoa and tissue cultures: Calkins and Carrel -- Modern explorers: Beebe, Andrews, Byrd, and Lindbergh -- Biology in the making. |
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Biologists.
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Biologists. |
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Scientists.
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Scientists. |
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Biology -- History.
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Biology. |
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History. |
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