Book ID: CBB000012819

Starfish, jellyfish, and the order of life: Issues in 19th-century science (1976)

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Winsor, Mary P. (Author)


Yale University Press


Publication Date: 1976
Physical Details: x + 228 pp.; illus.; bibl.; index

Description Contents: Cuvier's creation of the Embranchement radiata; Ehrenberg's opposition to the simplicity of the radiata; The discovery of alternation of generations in acalephs and polyps; The discovery and interpretation of echinoderm larvae; Louis Agassiz's theories on the meaning of groups of classification; The letters of Alexander Agassiz and Fritz Müller on the radiata and evolution; Darwin and the shape of classification.


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Review Smith, S. (1976) Review of "Starfish, jellyfish, and the order of life: Issues in 19th-century science". Nature (p. 333). unapi

Review Rudwick, M.J.S. (1976 (Aug. 27)) Review of "Starfish, jellyfish, and the order of life: Issues in 19th-century science". TLS: Times Literary Supplement (p. 1059). unapi

Review Oppenheimer, J.M. (1976) Review of "Starfish, jellyfish, and the order of life: Issues in 19th-century science". American Scientist (pp. 351-52). unapi

Review Churchill, F.B. (1977) Review of "Starfish, jellyfish, and the order of life: Issues in 19th-century science". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 496-97). unapi

Review Dahl, E. (1975-76) Review of "Starfish, jellyfish, and the order of life: Issues in 19th-century science". Lychnos (pp. 471-72). unapi

Review Rice, A.L. (1978) Review of "Starfish, jellyfish, and the order of life: Issues in 19th-century science". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 100-1). unapi

Review Mendelsohn, E. (1978) Review of "Starfish, jellyfish, and the order of life: Issues in 19th-century science". Journal of the History of Biology (pp. 219-20). unapi

Review Engel, H. (1977) Review of "Starfish, jellyfish, and the order of life: Issues in 19th-century science". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (pp. 314-15). unapi

Review Author missing; (1977) Review of "Starfish, jellyfish, and the order of life: Issues in 19th-century science". Medical History (p. 455). unapi

Review Moment, G.B. (1977) Review of "Starfish, jellyfish, and the order of life: Issues in 19th-century science". Quarterly Review of Biology (p. 388). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Gould, Stephen Jay
Nelson, Derek Lee
Pereira Martins, Lilian Al-Chueyr
Sutton, Marjorie
Stephens, Lester D.
Schwartz, Janelle A.
Journals
Archives of Natural History
Natural History
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society of London
Sterkiana
Raritan
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America
Publishers
University of Wisconsin at Madison
University of New Hampshire
Concepts
Invertebrate zoology
Zoology
Marine biology
Natural history
Sublime (philosophy)
Worms
People
Darwin, Charles Robert
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Antoine Pierre de Monet de
Verrill, Alpheus Hyatt
Verrill, Addison Emery
Smith, Sanderson
Say, Thomas
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Japan
Institutions
British Museum. Natural History
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