Styles of reasoning in the British life sciences : shared assumptions, 1820-1858
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Styles of reasoning in the British life sciences : shared assumptions, 1820-1858
（Science and culture in the nineteenth century, no. 1）
Pickering & Chatto, 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-225) and index
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Description
Explores how the concept of 'compound individuality' brought together life scientists working in pre-Darwinian London. This book states that scientists conducting research in comparative anatomy, physiology, cellular microscopy, embryology and the neurosciences repeatedly stated that plants and animals were compounds of smaller independent units.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1 Analysis Part I, Museums and Comparative Anatomy 2 Analysis Part II, The Neurosciences 3 Synthesis: Embryological Development as Metamorphosis 4 Regeneration as Reproduction 5 Palaetiology 6 The Attack on Compound Individuality, 1850-1859 Conclusion
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