Ebook The gestation of German biology: Philosophy and physiology from Stahl to Schelling

Ebook "The gestation of German biology: Philosophy and physiology from Stahl to Schelling" presents a different version of the emergence of the field, one that takes on both Foucault and Mayr and emphasizes the scientific progress throughout the eighteenth century that led to the recognition of the need for a special science. The embrace of the term biology around 1800, Zammito shows, was the culmination of a convergence between natural history and human physiology that led to the development of comparative physiology and morphology - the foundations of biology.