An edition of The mechanistic conception of life (1912)

The mechanistic conception of life

biological essays

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Cover of: The mechanistic conception of life by Jacques Loeb, Jacques Loeb
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An edition of The mechanistic conception of life (1912)

The mechanistic conception of life

biological essays

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An early 20th Century expansion of some of the mechanistic principles that underlay the17th Century natural philosophy of Rene Descartes, with more attention to scientific reduction than to mere suggestions that life is "nothing but...", though Loeb nonetheless did maintain that life emerged from non-living matter, is composed of such matter with no vital essence added, and that all life sciences therefore ultimately reduce through chemistry to physics.

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The University of Chicago press
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English
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232

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Biology Life (Biology) Philosophy Mechanism (Philosophy) Mechanisms (Philosophy) Life Physiology Biologie Physiologie Leven Filosofische aspecten Levensfilosofie Mechanicisme Psychofysiologie Bevruchting Voortplanting (biologie) Philosophie Tropisme
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Cover of: The mechanistic conception of life.
The mechanistic conception of life.
1964, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
in English
Cover of: The mechanistic conception of life
The mechanistic conception of life
1964, Harvard University Press
in English
Cover of: The mechanistic conception of life
The mechanistic conception of life: biological essays
1912, The University of Chicago press
in English
Cover of: The mechanistic conception of life
The mechanistic conception of life: biological essays
1912, The University of Chicago press
in English
Cover of: The mechanistic conception of life
The mechanistic conception of life: biological essays.
1912, University of Chicago Press
in English

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Table of Contents

The mechanistic conception of life.
The significance of tropisms for psychology.
Some fundamental facts and conceptions concerning the comparative physiology of the central nervous system.
Pattern adaptation of fishes and the mechanism of vision.
On some facts and principles of physiological morphology.
On the nature of the process of fertilization.
On the nature of formative stimulation (artificial parthenogenesis)
The prevention of the death of an egg through the act of fertilization.
The role of salts in the preservation of life.
Experimental study of the influence of environment on animals.

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Reprinted from various sources.

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Chicago, Ill

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Library of Congress
QH311 .L7, QH311 .L7 1912

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Pagination
5 p.l., 3-232 p.
Number of pages
232

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Open Library
OL6545402M
Internet Archive
mechanisticconce00loeb
LCCN
12018019
OCLC/WorldCat
784486

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OL1091893W

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