Biology and Its Makers: With Portraits and Other IllustrationsLocy, William A. (William Albert)
History
Biology and Its Makers: With Portraits and Other Illustrations
Locy, William A. (William Albert)
Biology -- History
Puschmann. Handbuch der Geschichte der Medizin, 3 vols. Good for topics
in anatomy and physiology.
Baas. The History of Medicine, 1889.
Radl. Geschichte der Biologischen Theorien seit dem Ende des
Siebzehnten Jahrhundert, 1905.
Janus. A Periodical devoted to the history of medicine and natural
science, founded in 1896.
Zoologische Annalen. Founded by Max Braun in 1904 in the interests of
the history of zoölogy.
Mitteilungen zur Geschichte der Medizin und Naturwissenschaften,
founded 1901.
Surgeon General's Library. The Catalogue should be consulted for its
many biographical references to biologists. The Library is especially
rich in historical documents, as old anatomies, physiologies,
zoölogies, etc.
Evolution. The bibliography of Evolution is given below under the
chapters dealing with the evolution theory.
II. SPECIAL REFERENCES
CHAPTER I
Ancient biological Science: Carus; Botany after 1530, Sachs. Aristotle:
Cuvier, a panegyric; Lewes, Aristotle--A Chapter from the History of
Science, 1864, a critical study; Huxley, On some Mistakes Attributed
to Aristotle; Macgilivray; Aristotle's History of Animals translated
in Bohn's Classical Library, 1887. Pliny: Macgilivray; Thorndike, The
Place of Magic in the Intellectual History of Europe, 1905, chap. III.
The Renaissance: Symonds. Epochs in Biological History: Geddes (see
General List).
CHAPTER II
Vesalius: Roth, Andreas Vesalius Bruxellensis, the edition of 1892,
the standard source of knowledge of Vesalius and his times, contains
bibliography, references to his different portraits, the resurrection
bone, etc., etc.; Foster (see General List), Lecture I, excellent;
Richardson in Disciples of Æsculapius, vol. I, contains pictures,
his signature, etc.; Pettigrew; White, vol. II, pp. 51-55; The
Practitioner, 1896, vol. 56; The Asclepiad, 1885, vol. II; De Humani
Corporis Fabrica, editions of 1543 and 1555; Opera Omnia, edited by
Boerhaave, 2 vols., 1725. Galen: Pettigrew; Huxley in his essay on
William Harvey.
CHAPTER III
Harvey: Foster, Lecture II, with quotations, excellent; Dalton, History
of the Circulation; Huxley, William Harvey, a critical essay; Harvey's
Works translated by Willis, with biography, Sydenham Society, 1847;
Life of Harvey by D'Arcy Power, 1898; Brooks, Harvey as Embryologist,
Bull. Johns Hop. Hospit., vol. VIII, 1897, good. An Anatomical
Dissertation upon the Movement of the Heart and Blood in Animals, a
facsimile reproduction of the first edition of the famous De Motu
Cordis et Sanguinis, 1628. Privately reproduced by Dr. Moreton in 1894.
Very interesting.
CHAPTER IV
Hooke: Biography in encyclopædias, his microscope in Carpenter, The
Microscope and Its Revelations, 8th ed., 1900.
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