An Introduction to the History of Chronobiology Volume 1

An Introduction to the History of Chronobiology  Volume 1
Author: Jole Shackelford
Publsiher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2022-11-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780822989042

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In three volumes, historian Jole Shackelford delineates the history of the study of biological rhythms—now widely known as chronobiology—from antiquity into the twentieth century. Perhaps the most well-known biological rhythm is the circadian rhythm, tied to the cycles of day and night and often referred to as the “body clock.” But there are many other biological rhythms, and although scientists and the natural philosophers who preceded them have long known about them, only in the past thirty years have a handful of pioneering scientists begun to study such rhythms in plants and animals seriously. Tracing the intellectual and institutional development of biological rhythm studies, Shackelford offers a meaningful, evidence-based account of a field that today holds great promise for applications in agriculture, health care, and public health. Volume 1 follows early biological observations and research, chiefly on plants; volume 2 turns to animal and human rhythms and the disciplinary contexts for chronobiological investigation; and volume 3 focuses primarily on twentieth-century researchers who modeled biological clocks and sought them out, including three molecular biologists whose work in determining clock mechanisms earned them a Nobel Prize in 2017.

Classification Evolution and the Nature of Biology

Classification  Evolution  and the Nature of Biology
Author: Alec L. Panchen
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1992-06-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0521315786

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Historically, naturalists who proposed theories of evolution, including Darwin and Wallace, did so in order to explain the apparent relationship of natural classification. This book begins by exploring the intimate historical relationship between patterns of classification and patterns of phylogeny. However, it is a circular argument to use the data for classification. Alec Panchen presents other evidence for evolution in the form of a historically based but rigorously logical argument. This is followed by a history of methods of classification and phylogeny reconstruction including current mathematical and molecular techniques. The author makes the important claim that if the hierarchical pattern of classification is a real phenomenon, then biology is unique as a science in making taxonomic statements. This conclusion is reached by way of historical reviews of theories of evolutionary mechanism and the philosophy of science as applied to biology. The book is addressed to biologists, particularly taxonomists, concerned with the history and philosophy of their subject, and to philosophers of science concerned with biology. It is also an important source book on methods of classification and the logic of evolutionary theory for students, professional biologists, and paleontologists.

Under the Banner of Science

Under the Banner of Science
Author: Maureen McNeil
Publsiher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1987
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: 0719014921

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A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders

A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders
Author: James Delbourgo
Publsiher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2006-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674022998

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"The first book to situate early American experimental science in the context of a transatlantic public sphere, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders offers a view of the origins of American science and the cultural meaning of the American Enlightenment."--BOOK JACKET.

The Growth of Biological Thought

The Growth of Biological Thought
Author: Ernst Mayr
Publsiher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 996
Release: 1982
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0674364465

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Explores the development of the ideas of evolutionary biology, particularly as affected by the increasing understanding of genetics and of the chemical basis of inheritance.

Romantic Medicine and John Keats

Romantic Medicine and John Keats
Author: Hermione De Almeida
Publsiher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 429
Release: 1991
Genre: Literature and medicine
ISBN: 9780195063073

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Using original research in scientific treatises, philosophical manuscripts, and political documents, this pioneering study describes the neglected era of revolutionary medicine in Europe through the writings of the English poet and physician, John Keats. De Almeida explores the four primary concerns of Romantic medicine--the physician's task, the meaning of life, the prescription of disease and health, and the evolution of matter and mind--and reveals their expression in Keats's poetry and thought. By delineating a distinct but unknown era in the history of medicine, charting the poet's milieu within this age, and providing close reading of his poems in these contexts, Romantic Medicine and John Keats illustrates the interdisciplinary bonds between the two healing arts of the Romantic period: medicine and poetry.

Mesmerists Monsters and Machines

Mesmerists  Monsters  and Machines
Author: Martin Willis
Publsiher: Kent State University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0873388577

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Using key canonical science fiction narratives, 'Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines' examines the intersection of the literary and scientific cultures of the 19th century.

Nature s Enigma

Nature s Enigma
Author: Virginia Parker Dawson
Publsiher: American Philosophical Society
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1987
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0871691744

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Two striking discoveries made 1740 a turning point in the history of 18th-century biology. Charles Bonnet established that aphids could reproduce without male fertilization. Shortly afterwards Abraham Trembley proved that a tiny aquatic animal, the fresh water polyp, or hydra, could regenerate from cuttings like some plants. The discovery of the polyp was important because of the disturbing metaphysical issues that it raised. In their letters written during the decade of the 1740s to Reaumur, the great French Academician, both Trembley & Bonnet referred to the polyp as an enigma. Not only did it seem to present a new mode of animal reproduction, previously unsuspected, but it called into question the prevailing mechanistic view of animal biology & brought into focus the problem of animal soul. Drawing on some of the most illuminating letters from the private archives of the Trembley family, this study focuses on the discovery of the polyp, using the correspondence of Bonnet & Trembley to understand their common Genevan background & their possible differences in approach from that of Reaumur.