‹ Back
The Story of the Living Machine

Owning includes offline reading and never expires.

Nature, Gardens & Animals

The Story of the Living Machine

Herbert William Conn

202 pages~4 hr 1 min read22 chapters$4.99
Or read everything with NaturaRead Plus · $6.99/mo
▷ Read a sample

Treat a living body as a machine and the questions sharpen: what drives it, fuels it, repairs it, and builds a new one? Herbert Conn walks through the cell and the organism as working mechanisms, surveying the biology of his day in plain language. A lucid introduction to how life runs itself. See the machinery inside every living thing.

Every copy includes a printable PDF edition, a beautifully typeset book you can print, mark up in the margins, and keep on your shelf. Yours the moment you own it.

Inside this book

22 chapters

  1. 1THE STORY OF THE LIVING MACHINE
  2. 2A REVIEW OF THE CONCLUSIONS OF MODERN BIOLOGY IN REGARD TO THE MECHANISM WHICH CONTROLS THE PHENOMENA OF LIVING ACTIVITY BY
  3. 3H.W. CONN
  4. 4PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY IN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY AUTHOR OF THE STORY OF GERM LIFE, EVOLUTION OF TO-DAY, THE LIVING WORLD, ETC.
  5. 5PREFACE.
  6. 6CONTENTS.
  7. 7LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  8. 8THE STORY OF THE LIVING MACHINE.
  9. 9INTRODUCTION.
  10. 10PART I.
  11. 11THE RUNNING OF THE LIVING MACHINE.
  12. 12CHAPTER I.
  13. 13IS THE BODY A MACHINE?
  14. 14CHAPTER II.
  15. 15THE CELL AND PROTOPLASM.
  16. 16PART II.
  17. 17THE BUILDING OF THE LIVING MACHINE.
  18. 18CHAPTER III.

+ 4 more. The full contents open with the book.

More to explore

More in Nature, Gardens & Animals

See all
Every book, one price

Read it all with NaturaRead Plus

The whole catalogue for USD 6.99 per month. Or open all five apps with All-Access for USD 19.99 a month, or USD 149 a year.