Author: Charlotte Grace O'Brien
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Languages : en
Pages : 86
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A Simple Catechism of the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms ...
Lessons on Animals, Vegetables and Minerals
Author: Jane Marcet
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Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Publisher:
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Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Cusack's object lessons. Animal world. (Mineral and vegetable world and common objects).
Author: Louisa Walker
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Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary and Physiological
Author: Mrs. Lincoln Phelps
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Familiar Lectures on Botany
Author: Almira Phelps
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385603307
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385603307
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Familiar Lectures on Botany, practical, elementary, and physiological. With an appendix, containing descriptions of the plants of the United States ... Seventh edition, revised and enlarged. Illustrated, etc
Author: Mrs. Almira H. LINCOLN
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Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Familiar Lectures on Botany
Author: Mrs. Lincoln Phelps
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?
Author: Susannah Gibson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191015245
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Since the time of Aristotle, there had been a clear divide between the three kingdoms of animal, vegetable, and mineral. But by the eighteenth century, biological experiments, and the wide range of new creatures coming to Europe from across the world, challenged these neat divisions. Abraham Trembley found that freshwater polyps grew into complete individuals when cut. This shocking discovery raised deep questions: was it a plant or an animal? And this was not the only conundrum. What of coral? Was it a rock or a living form? Did plants have sexes, like animals? The boundaries appeared to blur. And what did all this say about the nature of life itself? Were animals and plants soul-less, mechanical forms, as Descartes suggested? The debates raging across science played into some of the biggest and most controversial issues of Enlightenment Europe. In this book, Susannah Gibson explains how a study of pond slime could cause people to question the existence of the soul; observation of eggs could make a man doubt that God had created the world; how the discovery of the Venus fly-trap was linked to the French Revolution; and how interpretations of fossils could change our understanding of the Earth's history. Using rigorous historical research, and a lively and readable style, this book vividly captures the big concerns of eighteenth-century science. And the debates concerning the divisions of life did not end there; they continue to have resonances in modern biology.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191015245
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Since the time of Aristotle, there had been a clear divide between the three kingdoms of animal, vegetable, and mineral. But by the eighteenth century, biological experiments, and the wide range of new creatures coming to Europe from across the world, challenged these neat divisions. Abraham Trembley found that freshwater polyps grew into complete individuals when cut. This shocking discovery raised deep questions: was it a plant or an animal? And this was not the only conundrum. What of coral? Was it a rock or a living form? Did plants have sexes, like animals? The boundaries appeared to blur. And what did all this say about the nature of life itself? Were animals and plants soul-less, mechanical forms, as Descartes suggested? The debates raging across science played into some of the biggest and most controversial issues of Enlightenment Europe. In this book, Susannah Gibson explains how a study of pond slime could cause people to question the existence of the soul; observation of eggs could make a man doubt that God had created the world; how the discovery of the Venus fly-trap was linked to the French Revolution; and how interpretations of fossils could change our understanding of the Earth's history. Using rigorous historical research, and a lively and readable style, this book vividly captures the big concerns of eighteenth-century science. And the debates concerning the divisions of life did not end there; they continue to have resonances in modern biology.
Manual of Object-teaching
Author: Norman Allison Calkins
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Category : Object-teaching
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Category : Object-teaching
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Lessons on the Universe
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Category : Physical sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Category : Physical sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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