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Biology and Its Makers: With Portraits and Other IllustrationsLocy, William A. (William Albert)

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Biology and Its Makers: With Portraits and Other Illustrations

Name: Biology and Its Makers: With Portraits and Other Illustrations
Author: Locy, William A. (William Albert)

Locy, William A. (William Albert)

Biology -- History

theory launched in 1858, 429. Darwin's book on The Origin of
  Species regarded by him as merely an outline, 429. The spread
  of the doctrine of organic evolution, 429. Huxley one of its great
  popular exponents, 430. Haeckel, 431. After Darwin, the problem
  was to explain phenomena, 433.


  CHAPTER XX

  Retrospect and Prospect. Present Tendencies in Biology,              434

  Biological thought shows continuity of development, 434. Character
  of the progress--a crusade against superstition, 434. The first
  triumph of the scientific method was the overthrow of authority,
  435. The three stages of progress--descriptive, comparative,
  experimental, 435. The notable books of biology and their authors,
  435-437. Recent tendencies in biology: higher standards, 437;
  improvement in the tools of science, 438; advance in methods,
  439; experimental work, 439; the growing interest in the study
  of processes, 440; experiments applied to heredity and evolution,
  to fertilization of the egg, and to animal behavior, 440, 441. Some
  tendencies in anatomical studies, 442. Cell-lineage, 442. New
  work on the nervous system, 443. The application of biological
  facts to the benefit of mankind, 443. Technical biology, 443.
  Soil inoculation, 444. Relation of insects to the transmission of
  diseases, 444. The food of fishes, 444. The establishment and
  maintenance of biological laboratories, 444. The station at
  Naples, 444. Other stations, 446. The establishment and maintenance
  of technical periodicals, 446. Explorations of fossil
  records, 447. The reconstructive influence of biological progress,
  448.

  READING LIST,                                                        449

  I. General References, 449-451. II. Special References, 451-460.

  Index,                                                               461




ILLUSTRATIONS


 FIG.                                                                 PAGE

 1. Aristotle, 384-322 B.C.,                                           14

 2. Pliny, 23-79 A.D.,                                                 16

 3. Galen, 131-200,                                                    25

 4. Vesalius, 1514-1565,                                               29

 5. Anatomical Sketch from Vesalius' _Fabrica_ (1543),                 31

 6. The Skeleton from Vesalius' _Fabrica_,                             33

 7. Initial Letters from the _Fabrica_,                                34

 8. Fallopius, 1523-1563,                                              37

 9. Fabricius, Harvey's Teacher, 1537-1619,                            43

 10. William Harvey, 1578-1657,                                        44

 11. Scheme of the Portal Circulation according to Vesalius
 (1543),                                                               49

 12. Hooke's Microscope (1665),                                        55

 13. Malpighi, 1628-1694,                                              59

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