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Historia Insectorum Generalis

Author : Jan Swammerdam
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016242387
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Historia Insectorum Generalis written by Jan Swammerdam and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Amazing Rare Things

Author : David Attenborough
Publisher : Kales Press
ISBN 13 : 9780979845628
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Amazing Rare Things written by David Attenborough and published by Kales Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filmmaker Attenborough provides an introductory survey of the artistic representation of plants and animals through human history, beginning with Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and continuing on through the mid-1700s.

Generation

Author : Matthew Cobb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608190013
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Generation written by Matthew Cobb and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generation is the story of the exciting, largely forgotten decade during the seventeenth century when a group of young scientists-Jan Swammerdam, the son of a Protestant apothecary, Nils Stensen (also known as Steno), a Danish anatomist who first discovered the human tear duct, Reinier de Graaf, the attractive and brilliant son of a rich and successful Catholic architect, and Antoni Leeuwenhoek, a self-taught draper-dared to challenge thousands of years of orthodox thinking about where life comes from. By meticulous experimentation, dissection, and observation with the newly invented microscope, they showed that like breeds like, that all animals come from an egg, that there is no such thing as spontaneous generation, and that there are millions of tiny, wriggling "eels" in semen. However, their ultimate inability to fully understand the evidence that was in front of them led to a fatal mistake. As a result, the final leap in describing the process of reproduction-which would ultimately give birth to the science of genetics-took nearly two centuries for humanity to achieve. Including previously untranslated documents, Generation interweaves the personal stories of these scientists against a backdrop of the Dutch "Golden Age." It is a riveting account of the audacious men who swept away old certainties and provided the foundation for much of our current understanding of the living world.

The Book of Nature

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Nature written by and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father tells his child about the wonder of the natural world from a Christian point of view.

European Physico-theology (1650-c.1760) in Context

Author : Kaspar von Greyerz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192679473
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book European Physico-theology (1650-c.1760) in Context written by Kaspar von Greyerz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physico-theology celebrated the observation of nature as a way toward the recognition of God as Creator and to demonstrate the compatibility of the biblical record with the new science. It was a crucial, albeit often underestimated element in the intellectual as well as socio-cultural establishment of the new science in western and central Europe beginning in the mid-seventeenth century. The importance of physico-theology in enhancing the acceptance of the new science among a broad educated public cannot be underestimated. Unfortunately, this insight has not yet received much attention in the history of early modern science, chiefly because the history of physico-theology tends to highlight the activities of virtuosi rather than well-known scientists. A contribution to the history of knowledge, this is the first monograph in English on physico-theology on the European scale. It concentrates on two genres, the argument from design, and the palaeontological argument regarding the role of the Deluge in the formation of fossils. It does so without neglecting practice (correspondence and collecting). It pays considerable attention to the historical context, above all to the new image of God as a wise, benevolent, rather than unpredictable being, which provided the practitioners of physico-theology (including clergy, physicians, lawyers, and philologists) with a new and powerful argument. It draws attention to the predominantly Protestant nature of the phenomenon and looks at the longevity of the argument from design in Britain and the Netherlands, where its demise came about as late as the first half of the nineteenth century.

The Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy

Author : Ohad Nachtomy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199987319
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy written by Ohad Nachtomy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume advances a recent historiographical turn towards the intersection of early modern philosophy and the life sciences by bringing together many of its leading scholars to present the contributions of important but often neglected figures, such as Ralph Cudworth, Nehemiah Grew, Francis Glisson, Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Georg Ernst Stahl, Juan Gallego de la Serna, Nicholas Hartsoeker, Henry More, as well as more familiar figures such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Malebranche, and Kant. The contributions to this volume are organized in accordance with the particular problems that living beings and living nature posed for early modern philosophy: the problem of life in general, whether it constitutes something ontologically distinct at all, or whether it can ultimately be exhaustively comprehended "in the same manner as the rest"; the problem of the structure of living beings, by which we understand not just bare anatomy but also physiological processes such as irritability, motion, digestion, and so on; the problem of generation, which might be included alongside digestion and other vital processes, were it not for the fact that it presented such an exceptional riddle to philosophers since antiquity, namely, the riddle of coming-into-being out of -- apparent or real -- non-being; and, finally, the problem of natural order.

The Romantic Conception of Life

Author : Robert J. Richards
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226712184
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Romantic Conception of Life written by Robert J. Richards and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All art should become science and all science art; poetry and philosophy should be made one." Friedrich Schlegel's words perfectly capture the project of the German Romantics, who believed that the aesthetic approaches of art and literature could reveal patterns and meaning in nature that couldn't be uncovered through rationalistic philosophy and science alone. In this wide-ranging work, Robert J. Richards shows how the Romantic conception of the world influenced (and was influenced by) both the lives of the people who held it and the development of nineteenth-century science. Integrating Romantic literature, science, and philosophy with an intimate knowledge of the individuals involved—from Goethe and the brothers Schlegel to Humboldt and Friedrich and Caroline Schelling—Richards demonstrates how their tempestuous lives shaped their ideas as profoundly as their intellectual and cultural heritage. He focuses especially on how Romantic concepts of the self, as well as aesthetic and moral considerations—all tempered by personal relationships—altered scientific representations of nature. Although historians have long considered Romanticism at best a minor tributary to scientific thought, Richards moves it to the center of the main currents of nineteenth-century biology, culminating in the conception of nature that underlies Darwin's evolutionary theory. Uniting the personal and poetic aspects of philosophy and science in a way that the German Romantics themselves would have honored, The Romantic Conception of Life alters how we look at Romanticism and nineteenth-century biology.

The Quarrel over Swammerdam's Posthumous Works

Author : Andrea Strazzoni
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004532862
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Quarrel over Swammerdam's Posthumous Works written by Andrea Strazzoni and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quarrel over Swammerdam’s Posthumous Works reconstructs the vicissitudes of Johannes Swammerdam’s Biblia naturae, a pivotal collection of writings in the history of science. Bequeathed to the polymath Melchisédech Thévenot, the manuscripts and drawings of the treatises constituting this collection were instead kept by the editor Hermann Wingendorp after Swammerdam’s death (1680), triggering a quarrel over their publication. By analysing Swammerdam’s scientific legacy and by offering an edition of the correspondence testifying to the efforts towards such publication, this book sheds light on the editorial history and intellectual context of Swammerdam’s Biblia. This reveals not only an intricate plot of authorized and unauthorized attempts to publish it, but also an exchange of scientific texts and instruments in the late seventeenth century.

The Cambridge Modern History: The age of Louis XIV

Author : John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1010 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Modern History: The age of Louis XIV written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Cambridge Modern History" is a comprehensive modern history of the world, beginning with the 15th century age of Discovery, published by the Cambridge University Press in the United Kingdom and also in the United States.

Early Modern Zoology

Author : Karel A. E. Enenkel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004131884
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Zoology written by Karel A. E. Enenkel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, specialists from various disciplines (Neo-Latin, French, German, Dutch, History, History of Science, Art History) explore the fascinating early modern discourses on animals in science, literature and the visual arts.

Collected Letters Van Leeuwenhoek, Volume 6

Author : Lodewijk C. Palm
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000658465
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Collected Letters Van Leeuwenhoek, Volume 6 written by Lodewijk C. Palm and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 6th volume in a 19-volume series contains 21 letters written by van Leeuwenhoek of the perod 1686-87. The contents of the letters published here, again show the great range of subjects that occupied Van Leeuwenhoek: from sugar candy, the shape and crystal structure of diamonds, the dissolution of silver crystals in aqua fortis to gold dust from Guinea dissolved in aqua regia and the dissolution and separation of gold, silver, and copper. Every volume in the Series contains the texts in the original Dutch and an English translation. The great range of subjects studied by Van Leeuwenhoek is reflected in these letters: instruments to measure water, pulmonary diseases; experiments relating to the solution of gold and silver; salt crystals and grains of sand; botanical work, such as duckweed and germination of orange pips; description on protozoa. blood, spermatozoa and health and hygiene, for example and harmfulness of tea and coffee and the benefits of cleaning teeth.

Early Modern Zoology: The Construction of Animals in Science, Literature and the Visual Arts (2 vols.)

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047422368
Total Pages : 717 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Zoology: The Construction of Animals in Science, Literature and the Visual Arts (2 vols.) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new definition of the animal is one of the fascinating features of the intellectual life of the early modern period. The sixteenth century saw the invention of the new science of zoology. This went hand in hand with the (re)discovery of anatomy, physiology and – in the seventeenth century – the invention of the microscope. The discovery of the new world confronted intellectuals with hitherto unknown species, which found their way into courtly menageries, curiosity cabinets and academic collections. Artistic progress in painting and drawing brought about a new precision of animal illustrations. In this volume, specialists from various disciplines (Neo-Latin, French, German, Dutch, History, history of science, art history) explore the fascinating early modern discourses on animals in science, literature and the visual arts. The volume is of interest for all students of the history of science and intellectual life, of literature and art history of the early modern period. Contributors include Rebecca Parker Brienen, Paulette Choné, Sarah Cohen, Pia Cuneo, Louise Hill Curth, Florike Egmond, Karl A.E. Enenkel, Susanne Hehenberger, Annemarie Jordan-Gschwendt, Erik Jorink, Johan Koppenol, Almudena Perez de Tudela, Vibeke Roggen, Franziska Schnoor, Paul J. Smith, Thea Vignau-Wilberg, and Suzanne J. Walker.

Animals

Author : Michael Allaby
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0816061017
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Animals written by Michael Allaby and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of the scientific understanding of animals, discussing such topics as classification, animal behavior, menageries and zoos, genetics, and mythology.

Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Editions

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 878 pages
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Download or read book Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Editions written by and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopaedia Britannica

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (849 download)

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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or A Dictionary Of Arts, Sciences, And Miscellaneous Literature; Enlarged And Improved

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
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Download or read book Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or A Dictionary Of Arts, Sciences, And Miscellaneous Literature; Enlarged And Improved written by and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712). Volume One: 1662-1677

Author : Anna Marie Roos
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004263322
Total Pages : 966 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Correspondence of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712). Volume One: 1662-1677 written by Anna Marie Roos and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 John Thackray Medal awarded by the Society for the History of Natural History, U.K. Martin Lister (1639–1712) was a consummate virtuoso, the first arachnologist and conchologist, and a Royal physician. As one of the most prominent corresponding fellows of the Royal Society, many of Lister’s discoveries in natural history, archaeology, medicine, and chemistry were printed in the Philosophical Transactions. Lister corresponded extensively with explorers and other virtuosi such as John Ray, who provided him with specimens, observations, and locality records from Jamaica, America, Barbados, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and his native England. This volume of ca. 400 letters (one of three), consists of Lister’s correspondence dated from 1662 to 1677, including his time as a Cambridge Fellow, his medical training in Montpellier, and his years as a practicing physician in York.