Biology in the Nineteenth Century: Problems of Form, Function and Transformation (Cambridge Studies in the History of Science)
By William Coleman.
Description
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 th...
ISBN(s)
052129293X, 9780521292931
