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- catalog abstract ""Presents an account of the ways scientists and others have perceived life and living processes from the times of the early Greek philosophers to the twentieth century ... The book follows out several major themes in the history of biological thought. How is it possible to harmonise atomism and organism? What has happened to the concept of the soul which played so important a part in early biologies? To what extent does our technology influence our understanding of the living process? These and other questions are seen as instances of a major movement in the history of biological thought: a movement from an Aristotelian to a Cartesian vision of the nature of life"--Publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b1367071.
- catalog created "c1976.".
- catalog date "1976".
- catalog date "c1976.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1976.".
- catalog description ""Presents an account of the ways scientists and others have perceived life and living processes from the times of the early Greek philosophers to the twentieth century ... The book follows out several major themes in the history of biological thought. How is it possible to harmonise atomism and organism? What has happened to the concept of the soul which played so important a part in early biologies? To what extent does our technology influence our understanding of the living process? These and other questions are seen as instances of a major movement in the history of biological thought: a movement from an Aristotelian to a Cartesian vision of the nature of life"--Publisher description.".
- catalog description "1. The act of imagination -- 2. Beginnings -- 3. The palaeontology of some key words -- 4. Miletus -- 5. The Italian shore -- 6. Elea and after -- 7. The 'Timaeus' -- 8. Aristotle : metaphysics -- 9. Aristotle : physical sciences -- 10. Aristotle : life sciences -- 11. Athenian afterglow -- 12. Alchemy -- 13. Mutation of the paradigm -- 14. Escape from the labyrinth -- 15. Descartes -- 16. Enlightenment -- 17. The mechanisation of physiology -- 18. The Romantic reaction -- 19. The origin of species -- 20. The mechanism of heredity -- 21. A clockwork embryo? -- 22. Deactivation of the mind.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 315-329.".
- catalog extent "xxiv, 343 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Problem of life.".
- catalog identifier "0470801883".
- catalog isFormatOf "Problem of life.".
- catalog issued "1976".
- catalog issued "c1976.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Wiley,".
- catalog relation "Problem of life.".
- catalog subject "Biology History.".
- catalog subject "Biology Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "QH 331 S644p 1976".
- catalog subject "QH331 .S58 1976".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The act of imagination -- 2. Beginnings -- 3. The palaeontology of some key words -- 4. Miletus -- 5. The Italian shore -- 6. Elea and after -- 7. The 'Timaeus' -- 8. Aristotle : metaphysics -- 9. Aristotle : physical sciences -- 10. Aristotle : life sciences -- 11. Athenian afterglow -- 12. Alchemy -- 13. Mutation of the paradigm -- 14. Escape from the labyrinth -- 15. Descartes -- 16. Enlightenment -- 17. The mechanisation of physiology -- 18. The Romantic reaction -- 19. The origin of species -- 20. The mechanism of heredity -- 21. A clockwork embryo? -- 22. Deactivation of the mind.".
- catalog title "The problem of life : an essay in the origins of biological thought / C. U. M. Smith.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".