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Matter, Life, and Generation: Eighteenth-Century Embryology and the Haller-Wolff Debate Paperback - 2003
by Shirley a. Roe; Roe Shirley a.
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In 1683, the French savant Bernard de Fontenelle offered the following rejoinder to the mechanical physiology of this day: "Do you say that beasts are machines just as watches are?
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- Title Matter, Life, and Generation: Eighteenth-Century Embryology and the Haller-Wolff Debate
- Author Shirley a. Roe; Roe Shirley a.
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 228
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- Date 2003-11-13
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780521525251 / 052152525X
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.52 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.32 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 571.860
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