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Author Roe, Shirley A., 1949-

Title Matter, life, and generation : eighteenth-century embryology and the Haller-Wolff debate / Shirley A. Roe
Published Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981

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Description x, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: mechanism and embryology -- 2. Haller's changing views on embryology -- 3. The embryological debate -- 4. The philosophical debate: Newtonianism versus rationalism -- 5. Wolff's later work on variation and heredity -- 6. Epilogue: the old and the new -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Analysis Embryology 1700-1800
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [184]-204
Subject Haller, Albrecht von, 1708-1777.
Wolf, Caspar, 1735-1783.
Wolff, Caspar Friedrich, 1733-1794.
Biology -- Philosophy.
Embryology -- History -- 18th century.
Embryology -- History.
LC no. 80019611
ISBN 0521235405