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- catalog abstract ""How, asks James Strick, could spontaneous generation - the idea that living things can suddenly arise from nonliving materials - come to take root for a time (even a brief one) in so thoroughly unsuitable a field as British natural theology? No less an authority than Aristotle claimed that cases of spontaneous generation were to be observed in nature, and the idea held sway for centuries. Beginning around the time of the Scientific Revolution, however, the doctrine was increasingly challenged; attempts to prove or disprove it led to important breakthroughs in experimental design and laboratory techniques, most notably sterilization methods, that became the cornerstones of modern microbiology and sped the ascendancy of the germ theory of disease."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11704664.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""How, asks James Strick, could spontaneous generation - the idea that living things can suddenly arise from nonliving materials - come to take root for a time (even a brief one) in so thoroughly unsuitable a field as British natural theology? No less an authority than Aristotle claimed that cases of spontaneous generation were to be observed in nature, and the idea held sway for centuries. Beginning around the time of the Scientific Revolution, however, the doctrine was increasingly challenged; attempts to prove or disprove it led to important breakthroughs in experimental design and laboratory techniques, most notably sterilization methods, that became the cornerstones of modern microbiology and sped the ascendancy of the germ theory of disease."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-275) and index.".
- catalog description "Spontaneous generation and early Victorian science -- "Molecular" theories and the conversion of Owen and Bennett -- Bastian as rising star -- Initial confrontation with the X club: 1870-1873 -- Colloids, pleomorphic theories, and cell theories: a state of flux -- Germ theories and the British medical community -- Purity and contamination: Tyndall's campaign as the final blow.".
- catalog extent "xi, 283 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Sparks of life.".
- catalog identifier "067400292X (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Sparks of life.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Sparks of life.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "576.8/8 21".
- catalog subject "Evolution (Biology) Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Evolution (Biology) Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901.".
- catalog subject "QH325 .S85 2000".
- catalog subject "Spontaneous generation Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901.".
- catalog subject "Spontaneous generation History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Spontaneous generation and early Victorian science -- "Molecular" theories and the conversion of Owen and Bennett -- Bastian as rising star -- Initial confrontation with the X club: 1870-1873 -- Colloids, pleomorphic theories, and cell theories: a state of flux -- Germ theories and the British medical community -- Purity and contamination: Tyndall's campaign as the final blow.".
- catalog title "Sparks of life : Darwinism and the Victorian debates over spontaneous generation / James E. Strick.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".