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The gestation of German biology : philosophy and physiology from Stahl to Schelling / John H. Zammito.

Author/creator Zammito, John H., 1948- author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Copyright Notice ©2018
Description523 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents The gestation of German biology -- Animism and organism: G.E. Stahl and the Halle medical faculty -- Making life science Newtonian: Albrecht von Haller's self-fashioning as natural scientist -- Albrecht von Haller as arbiter of German medicine: Göttingen and Bern (1736-1777) -- French vital materialism -- Taking up the French challenge: the German response -- From natural history to history of nature: from Buffon to Kant and Herder (and Blumenbach) -- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and the life sciences in Germany: his rise to eminence from the 1770s -- Blumenbach, Kant, and the "daring adventure" of an "archaeology of nature" -- Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer and "an entirely new epoch of natural history" -- Polarität und Steigerung: the self-organization of nature and the actualization of life -- Naturphilosophie and physiology.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2017023339
ISBN9780226520797 hardcover ; alkaline paper
ISBN022652079X hardcover ; alkaline paper
ISBNelectronic book

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Joyner General Stacks QH320 .G3 Z355 2018 ✔ Available Place Hold