The gestation of German biology : philosophy and physiology from Stahl to Schelling /: philosophy and physiology from Stahl to Schelling. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John H. Zammito.
• Authors: Zammito, John H, 1948-
• Contents: The gestation of German biology -- Animism and organism: G. E. Stahl and the Halle medical faculty -- Making life science Newtonian: Albrecht von Haller's self-fashioning as natural scientist -- Albrecht von Haller as arbiter of German medicine: Göttingen and Bern (1736-1777) -- French vital materialism -- Taking up the French challenge: the German response -- From natural history to history of nature: from Buffon to Kant and Herder (and Blumenbach) -- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and the life sciences in Germany: his rise to eminence from the 1770s -- Blumenbach, Kant, and the "daring adventure" of an "archaeology of nature" -- Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer and "an entirely new epoch of natural history" -- Polarität und Steigerung: the self-organization of nature and the actualization of life -- Naturphilosophie and physiology.
• Publisher Details: Chicago London : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 570.760943; Science -- General; Biology -- Study and teaching -- Germany; Physiology -- Study and teaching -- Germany; Biology -- Study and teaching; Physiology -- Study and teaching; NATURE / Reference; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / General; Science -- History; Science -- Life Sciences -- Anatomy & Physiology; Science -- Philosophy & Social Aspects; History -- Europe -- Germany; Germany; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226520827
• Related ISBNs: 9780226520797; 022652079X; 022652082X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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