Elwick James:
Styles Of Reasoning In The British Life Sciences
Shared Assumptions, 1820-58
Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd (United Kingdom), 2007
Hardback, 244 pages
Size: 234x156 mm
ISBN: 9781851969203
ISBN-10: 1851969209
Styles Of Reasoning In The British Life Sciences
Explores how the concept of 'compound individuality' brought together life scientists working in pre-Darwinian London. This book states that scientists conducting research in comparative anatomy, physiology, cellular microscopy, embryology and the neurosciences repeatedly stated that plants and animals were compounds of smaller independent units.
