The mechanistic conception of life
biological essays
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Author
Publication
1912 - The University of Chicago press, Chicago, Ill, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
58,000 words, Guess
Page Count
232 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL6545402M
- OCLC Control Number784486
- OCLC Control Numbermechanisticconce00loeb
- Library of Congress Control Number12018019
Classifications
- LCCQH311 .L7
Description
An early 20th Century expansion of some of the mechanistic principles that underlay the17th Century natural philosophy of Rene Descartes, with more attention to scientific reduction than to mere suggestions that life is "nothing but...", though Loeb nonetheless did maintain that life emerged from non-living matter, is composed of such matter with no vital essence added, and that all life sciences therefore ultimately reduce through chemistry to physics.
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