Matter, Life, and Generation: Eighteenth-Century Embryology and the Haller-Wolff Debate

by Shirley A. Roe

Book Overview

In the eighteenth century, two rival theories of organic generation existed. The 'preformationists' believed that all embryos had been formed by God at the Creation and encased within one another to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052152525X
• ISBN13: 9780521525251
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"