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History of biology
Louis Compton Miall
The science of life has its own long history, from ancient guesses to modern method. Louis Miall traces biology from the naturalists of antiquity through the long silence and the revival of botany and zoology. A clear, well-told account of how living things came to be studied. For the reader who wants to understand where biology came from. Follow the science of life through the ages.
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56 chapters
- 1HISTORY OF BIOLOGY
- 2CONTENTS
- 3LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4INTRODUCTION
- 5The Biology of the Ancients.
- 6Extinction of Scientific Inquiry.
- 7Revival of Knowledge.
- 8PERIOD I.
- 9Characteristics of the Period.
- 10The Revival of Botany.
- 11The Revival of Zoology.
- 12Early Notions of System.
- 13The First English Naturalists.
- 14The Rise of Experimental Physiology.
- 15The Natural History of Distant Lands (Sixteenth Century and Earlier).
- 16Agriculture, Horticulture, and Silk-Culture in the Sixteenth Century.
- 17PERIOD II
- 18Characteristics of the Period.
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