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The mechanistic conception of life

Jacques Loeb
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction by Donald Fleming (page vii)
  • A Note on the Text (page xlii)
  • THE MECHANISTIC CONCEPTION OF LIFE
    • Preface (page 3)
    • 1. The Mechanisitic Conception of Life (page 5)
    • 2. The Significance of Tropisms for Pyschology (page 35)
    • 3. Some Fundamental Facts and Conceptions concerning the Comparative Physiology of the Central Nervous System (page 64)
    • 4. Pattern Adaptation of Fishes and the Mechanism of Vision (page 75)
    • 5. On Some Facts and Principles of Physiological Morphology (page 78)
    • 6. On the Nature of the Process of Fertilization (page 105)
    • 7. On the Nature of Formative Stimulation (Artificial Parthenogenesis) (page 116)
    • 8. The Prevention of the Death of the Egg through the Act of Fertilization (page 143)
    • 9. The Role of Salts in the Preservation of Life (page 154)
    • 10. Experimental Study of the Influence of Environment on Animals (page 178)
  • Index (page 211)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
PR 22.2 (Mar. 1913): 226-227 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2178378
ISIS 2.1 (Jun. 1914):232 http://www.jstor.org/stable/223579
MIND 22.87 (Jul.1913): 387-392 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2249146
ISIS 55.4 (Dec. 1964): 468-469 http://www.jstor.org/stable/228332
BJHS 3.1 (Jun. 1966): 92-93 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4025121
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Published: c1964
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780674559509 (hardcover)
Series
  • The John Harvard Library
Subject
  • Science & Technology
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