Thesis ID: CBB001563311

The animal machine and the problem of the polyp in the letters of Bonnet, Trembley, and Réaumur (1983)

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Dawson, Virginia Parker (Author)


Case Western Reserve University
Schofield, Robert


Publication Date: 1983
Edition Details: Advisor: Robert Schofield
Physical Details: 295 pp.

Description Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 44 (1984): 2558. Univ. Microfilms order no. 83-28253.


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Authors & Contributors
Dawson, Virginia Parker
Terrall, Mary
Lenhoff, Sylvia G.
Lenhoff, Howard M.
Gibson, Susannah
Spary, Emma C.
Journals
Mefisto: Rivista di medicina, filosofia, storia
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
Janus: revue internationale de l'histoire des sciences, de la medecine, de la pharmacie et de la technique
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
History of Science
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Oxford University Press
Boxwood Press
Basilisken-Presse
American Philosophical Society
Concepts
Comparative physiology
Animals
Plants
Observation
Zoology
Biology
People
Trembley, Abraham
Réaumur, René Antoine Ferchault de
Bonnet, Charles
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de
Spallanzani, Lazzaro
Klein, Jacob Theodor
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
Places
France
Great Britain
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