The Rise of Experimental Biology: An Illustrated History (Paperback)

Introduction: Science is Improbable The Beginnings Myth and Magic Mesopotamia Egypt Early Greek Science The Milesians The Post-Milesians The Soul. Summary The Age of Plato and Aristotle Plato and Theory Aristotle and Observation The Alexandrian Period: The Age of the Experiment and the Textbook The Roman Period Celsus Pliny Galen The Dark Ages. Islamic Science Scholasticism and Science The Renaissance: The Birth of Science The Renaissance: The Birth of Experimental Biology The New Physiology Iatrochemistry Iatrophysics New Technology, New Physiology The New World of the Very Small Vital Air Reaction and Opposition The Enlightenment and Rational Biology Rational Biology The Emergence of Physiology Transition to the 19th Century: Popular Science, Eccentric Science, and Romantic Physiology Hunter and Spallanzani: The Last Great All-Rounders The Science Museum: Collecting and Displaying Romantic Physiology The Consolidation of Experimental Biology Respiration Metabolic Chemistry Internal Secretions Renal Physiology Digestion Benefits New Fields Evolution and Physiology Physiology Abused Gullability Reckless Intervention Evolutionary Genetics and Social Repression Today What is Science? Biology Today