عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
QH325 .S85 2002
QH325
.
S85
2002
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0674009991
(Number (ISBN
9780674009998
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b794535
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Sparks of life :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
Darwinism and the Victorian debates over spontaneous generation /
First Statement of Responsibility
James E. Strick.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Cambridge, Mass. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Harvard University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2002, c2000.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xi, 283 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-275) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Spontaneous generation and early Victorian science -- "Molecular" theories and the conversion of Owen and Bennett -- Bastian as rising star -- Initial confrontation with the X club : 1870-1873 -- Colloids, pleomorphic theories, and cell theories : a state of flux -- Germ theories and the British medical community -- Purity and contamination : Tyndall's campaign as the final blow.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"How, asks James Strick, could spontaneous generation - the idea that living things can suddenly arise from nonliving materials - come to take root for a time (even a brief one) in so thoroughly unsuitable a field as British natural theology? No less an authority than Aristotle claimed that cases of spontaneous generation were to be observed in nature, and the idea held sway for centuries. Beginning around the time of the Scientific Revolution, however, the doctrine was increasingly challenged; attempts to prove or disprove it led to important breakthroughs in experimental design and laboratory techniques, most notably sterilization methods, that became the cornerstones of modern microbiology and sped the ascendancy of the germ theory of disease"--Jacket.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Evolution (Biology)-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
Spontaneous generation-- History-- Victoria, 1837-1901.
Biological Evolution
Biology-- history
History, 19th Century
Origin of Life
Evolution (Biology)
Spontaneous generation.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Great Britain
Great Britain.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
QH325
.
S85
2002
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
QH
325
Book Number
S916s
2002
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Strick, James Edgar,1956-
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Lederberg, Joshua
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20201207074121.0
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
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