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- catalog contributor b2022669.
- catalog created "1964.".
- catalog date "1964".
- catalog date "1964.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1964.".
- catalog description "1. "The blaze Newton kindled on the altar of science" -- 2. Electricity : the soul of the universe -- i. Electricity and the idea of immanence -- ii. The Leyden jar -- iii. Electricity and vital energy -- iv. Animated phials -- v. The sovereign remedy -- vi. The climax of speculation -- 3. Clearing the mysteries of vegetation -- i. Analogy as an aid to understanding -- ii. Plant nutrition and growth, 1660-1727 -- iii. Plant generation, 1676-1830 -- 4. The triumph of botanical analogy -- i. Linnaeus, analogy, and the scale of beings -- ii. Problematical organisms -- iii. The super-life of plants -- 5. From the idea of nature to the science of biology -- i. Erasmus Darwin -- ii. Lamarck : the rejection of analogy -- iii. Sir Humphry Davy : the rejection of subtle fluids and the romantic imagination in science -- iv. John Hunter : the first of the modern biologists -- v. The romantic protest.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 211-273.".
- catalog extent "viii, 287 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Overtures to biology.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Overtures to biology.".
- catalog issued "1964".
- catalog issued "1964.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven, Yale University Press,".
- catalog relation "Overtures to biology.".
- catalog subject "574.09".
- catalog subject "Biology History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Biology History.".
- catalog subject "Biology history.".
- catalog subject "QH 305 R617o 1964".
- catalog subject "QH305 .R5".
- catalog subject "Science History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Science History.".
- catalog subject "Science history.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. "The blaze Newton kindled on the altar of science" -- 2. Electricity : the soul of the universe -- i. Electricity and the idea of immanence -- ii. The Leyden jar -- iii. Electricity and vital energy -- iv. Animated phials -- v. The sovereign remedy -- vi. The climax of speculation -- 3. Clearing the mysteries of vegetation -- i. Analogy as an aid to understanding -- ii. Plant nutrition and growth, 1660-1727 -- iii. Plant generation, 1676-1830 -- 4. The triumph of botanical analogy -- i. Linnaeus, analogy, and the scale of beings -- ii. Problematical organisms -- iii. The super-life of plants -- 5. From the idea of nature to the science of biology -- i. Erasmus Darwin -- ii. Lamarck : the rejection of analogy -- iii. Sir Humphry Davy : the rejection of subtle fluids and the romantic imagination in science -- iv. John Hunter : the first of the modern biologists -- v. The romantic protest.".
- catalog title "Overtures to biology; the speculations of eighteenth-century naturalists [by] Philip C. Ritterbush.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".