Book ID: CBB000040077

Nature's enigma: The problem of the polyp in the letters of Bonnet, Trembley, and Réaumur (1987)

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Dawson, Virginia Parker (Author)


American Philosophical Society


Publication Date: 1987
Physical Details: ix + 266 pp.; illus.; bibl.; index

Reviewed By

Review Maienschein, J. (1988) Review of "Nature's enigma: The problem of the polyp in the letters of Bonnet, Trembley, and Réaumur". Journal of the History of Biology (pp. 354-55). unapi

Review Vartanian, A. (1989) Review of "Nature's enigma: The problem of the polyp in the letters of Bonnet, Trembley, and Réaumur". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 295-96). unapi

Review Williams, R.B. (1990) Review of "Nature's enigma: The problem of the polyp in the letters of Bonnet, Trembley, and Réaumur". Archives of Natural History (p. 379). unapi

Review Roe, S.A. (1990) Review of "Nature's enigma: The problem of the polyp in the letters of Bonnet, Trembley, and Réaumur". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 354-55). unapi

Review Glass, B. (1988) Review of "Nature's enigma: The problem of the polyp in the letters of Bonnet, Trembley, and Réaumur". Quarterly Review of Biology (pp. 318-20). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Dawson, Virginia Parker
Terrall, Mary
Lenhoff, Sylvia G.
Lenhoff, Howard M.
Gibson, Susannah
Müller, G. H.
Concepts
Comparative physiology
Animals
Plants
Zoology
Biology
Animal physiology
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
Places
France
Italy
Great Britain
Institutions
Jardin du roi (France)
Académie Royale de Chirurgie de Paris
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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