THE MECHANISTIC CONCEPTION OF LIFE

by Loeb, Jacques

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Chicago:: Univ. of Chicago,, 1912. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; head of spine lightly worn; water spill(?) on covers, no damage inside; one-inch tear in blank margin of leaf pp. 3/4; otherwise, good.. + index. With occasional b&w drawings. Loeb (1859-1924) devoted most of his life to dynamic / chemodynamic study of living processes; did original research on chain reflexes of brain; one of first to settle: `What is the smallest particle that shows all phenomena of life?' (See Garrison-Morton.) ||| Covers: Mechanistic Conception of Life; Significance of Tropisms for Psychology; Fundamental Facts & Conceptions concerning Comparative Physiology, Central Nervous System; Pattern Adaptation of Fishes & Mechanism of Vision; Facts & Principles of Physiological Morphology; Nature & Process of Fertilization; Artificial Parthenogenesis; Experimental Study, Influence of Environment in Animals.