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       L. C. Miall

      History of biology

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066231194

       INTRODUCTION

       The Biology of the Ancients.

       Extinction of Scientific Inquiry.

       Revival of Knowledge.

       PERIOD I.

       Characteristics of the Period.

       The Revival of Botany.

       The Revival of Zoology.

       Early Notions of System.

       The First English Naturalists.

       The Rise of Experimental Physiology.

       The Natural History of Distant Lands (Sixteenth Century and Earlier) .

       Agriculture, Horticulture, and Silk-Culture in the Sixteenth Century.

       PERIOD II

       Characteristics of the Period.

       The Minute Anatomists.

       Early Notions about the Nature of Fossils.

       Comparative Anatomy: the Study of Biological Types.

       Adaptations of Plants and Animals: Natural Theology.

       Spontaneous Generation.

       The Natural History of John Ray.

       The Scale of Nature.

       The Sexes of Flowering Plants.

       PERIOD III

       Characteristics of the Period.

       Systems of Flowering Plants: Linnæus and the Jussieus.

       Réaumur and the History of Insects.

       The Budding-out of New Animals (Hydra) : another Form of Propagation without Mating (Aphids) .

       The Historical or Comparative Method: Montesquieu and Buffon.

       Amateur Students of Living Animals.

       Intelligence and Instinct in the Lower Animals.

       The Food of Green Plants.

       The Metamorphoses of Plants.

       Early Notions about the Lower Plants.

       PERIOD IV

       Characteristics of the Period.

       Sprengel and the Fertilisation of Flowers.

       Cuvier and the Rise of Palæontology.

       Chamisso on the Alternation of Generations in Salpa.

       Baer and the Development of Animals.

       The Cell Theory.

       The Enrichment of English Gardens.

       Humboldt as a Traveller and a Biologist.

       Premonitions of Biological Evolution.

       PERIOD V

       Period V.

       Darwin on the Origin of Species.

       Pasteur's Experimental Study of Microbes.

       CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

       THE SUB-DIVISIONS OF BIOLOGY

       BIBILIOGRAPHY

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