Biology and Its Makers
by Locy, William A. (William Albert)
This edition has images.
LoC No.:
08021045
Title:
Biology and Its MakersWith Portraits and Other Illustrations
Contents:
An outline of the rise of biology and of the epochs in its history -- Vesalius and the overthrow of authority in science -- William Harvey and experimental observation -- The introduction of the microscope and the progress of independent observation -- The progress of minute anatomy -- Linnæus and scientific natural history -- Cuvier and the rise of comparative anatomy...