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Matter, Life and Generation: Eighteenth-Century Embryology and the Haller-Wolff Debate - Brossura

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A case-study of the interaction between philosophical context and observational data in the practice of Science.

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In the eighteenth century, two rival theories of organic generation existed. This book takes the debate beyond its observational basis and shows that at issue were not only specific embryological problems but also fundamental philosophical questions about the natural world and the way science should explain it.

Contenuti

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.

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