Science (Academic) Books

Pt.1. Biology in classical antiquity, the middle ages and the renaissance : history of biology during the renaissance -- pt.2. Biology in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- pt.3. From Darwin to our own day.

"For the ordinary student and teacher on this continent freshwater life has a significance heretofore greatly underestimated. In most parts of the country it lies at one's very door, readily accessible, and is indeed the only type of aquatic existence which can be studied Uving and at work. This...

McRae, Charles. Formerly Scholar of Exeter College, Oxford. Hippocrates.-- Aristotle.-- Galen.-- Vesalius.-- Harvey

George Howard Parker (December 23, 1864 – March 26, 1955) was an American zoologist. He was a professor at Harvard, and investigated the anatomy and physiology of sense organs and animal reactions.

Sir John Arthur Thomson (8 July 1861 – 12 February 1933) was a Scottish naturalist who authored several notable books and was an expert on soft corals.

Carpenter, George H. (George Herbert), 1865-1939, Keeper of The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester Formerly Professor of Zoology in The Royal College of Science, Dublin.

Pearl, Raymond, 1879-1940 The John's Hopkins University. The biology of death; being a series of lectures delivered at the Lowell institute in Boston in December 1920.

"To clear the way for the understanding of the line of argument adopted in this little book, I commence with a quotation from Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy, on the scope of Biology. I do this for two reasons : 1. To present the reader with the fullest and clearest explanation...

Benjamin C. Gruenberg,Consultant, Social Security Board Formerly Chairman Biology Departments Commercial and Julia Richman High Schools New York City and N. Eldred Bingham,Horace Mann-Lincoln School Teachers College, Columbia University

An outline of the rise of biology and of the epochs in its history.-Vesalius and the overthrow of authority in science.-William Harvey and experimental observation.-The introduction of the microscope and the progress of independent observation.-The progress of minute anatomy.--Linnaeus and...