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The gestation of German biology : philosophy and physiology from Stahl to Schelling
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- Creator
- John H. Zammito
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018
- ©2018
- Physical Details
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- 523 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226520797, 022652079X, 9780226520827
- OCLC
- ocn975487426
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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