Name: Matter, Life, and Generation Paperback: Eighteenth-Century Embryology and the Haller-Wolff Debate (en Inglés)
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Author: Roe
ISBN: 9780521525251

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Matter, Life, and Generation Paperback: Eighteenth-Century Embryology and the Haller-Wolff Debate (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Autor

Roe

Año

2003

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

224

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

052152525x

ISBN13

9780521525251

Categorías

Historia de la ciencia

Matter, Life, and Generation Paperback: Eighteenth-Century Embryology and the Haller-Wolff Debate (en Inglés)

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In the eighteenth century, two rival theories of organic generation existed. The 'preformationists' believed that all embryos had been formed by God at the Creation and encased within one another to await their future appointed time of development, while the 'epigenesists' argued that each embryo is newly produced through gradual development from unorganized material. The most important clash between the two schools, the debate between Albrecht von Haller (1708-77) and Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1734-94), crystallized many of the key issues of eighteenth-century biology - the role of mechanism in biological explanation, the relationship of God to His Creation, the question of spontaneous generation, the problems of regeneration, hybrids, and monstrous births. In this book, Professor Roe takes the debate beyond its observational basis and shows that at issue were not only specific embryological problems but also fundamental philosophical questions about the natural world and the way science should explain it.