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" Sparks of life : "
James E. Strick.
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BL
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1040165
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b794535
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Strick, James Edgar,1956-
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Sparks of life : : Darwinism and the Victorian debates over spontaneous generation /\ James E. Strick.
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1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, Mass. :: Harvard University Press,, 2002, c2000.
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xi, 283 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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0674009991
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: 9780674009998
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-275) and index.
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| Contents
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Spontaneous generation and early Victorian science -- "Molecular" theories and the conversion of Owen and Bennett -- Bastian as rising star -- Initial confrontation with the X club : 1870-1873 -- Colloids, pleomorphic theories, and cell theories : a state of flux -- Germ theories and the British medical community -- Purity and contamination : Tyndall's campaign as the final blow.
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"How, asks James Strick, could spontaneous generation - the idea that living things can suddenly arise from nonliving materials - come to take root for a time (even a brief one) in so thoroughly unsuitable a field as British natural theology? No less an authority than Aristotle claimed that cases of spontaneous generation were to be observed in nature, and the idea held sway for centuries. Beginning around the time of the Scientific Revolution, however, the doctrine was increasingly challenged; attempts to prove or disprove it led to important breakthroughs in experimental design and laboratory techniques, most notably sterilization methods, that became the cornerstones of modern microbiology and sped the ascendancy of the germ theory of disease"--Jacket.
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Evolution (Biology)-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Spontaneous generation-- History-- Victoria, 1837-1901.
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Evolution (Biology)
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Spontaneous generation.
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Origin of Life
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Biological Evolution
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Biology-- history
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History, 19th Century
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Great Britain
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Great Britain.
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QH325 .S85 2002
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QH 325S916s 2002
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Lederberg, Joshua
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