Biology Takes Form - Animal Morphology and the German Universities, 1800-1900

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1: Situating MorphologyPt. 1: Morphology and Physiology2: The Study of Form before 18503: Rearranging the Sciences of Animal Life, 1845-1870Pt. 2: Evolutionary Morphology, 1860-18804: Descent and the Laws of Development5: Evolutionary Morphology at Jena6: Evolution and Morphology among the Zoologists, 1860-18807: Evolutionary Morphology in Anatomy: Carl Gegenbaur and His SchoolPt. 3: Morphology and Biology, 1880-19008: The Kompetenzkonflikt within the Evolutionary Morphological Program9: New Approaches to Form, 1880-1900: Rhetoric, Research, and Rewards10: Morphology, Biology, and the Zoological Professoriate11: Morphology and Disciplinary Development: Observations and ReflectionsApp. 1. Anatomy and Zoology Professors, 1810-1918, by BirthdateApp. 2. Professorships in Zoology, 1810-1918App. 3. Professorships in Anatomy, 1810-1918Archival SourcesBibliographyIndex

About the author

Lynn K. Nyhart is associate professor in the Department of the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Summary

This study argues that morphology was integral to the life sciences of the 19th century. It traces the development of morphological research in German universities and illuminates significant institutional as well as intellectual changes in 19th-century German biology.

Product details

• Authors: Lynn K. Nyhart
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.1995
• EAN: 9780226610887
• ISBN: 978-0-226-61088-7
• No. of pages: 428
• Dimensions: 252 mm x 192 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 670 g
• Series: Science & Its Conceptual Found; Science & its Conceptual Foundations Series SCF (CHUP); Science & its Conceptual Foundations Series SCF; Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology