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The mechanistic conception of life

Loeb, Jacques, 1859-1924.

Year: c1964.

Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

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Frontmatter

Introduction by Donald Fleming

A Note on the Text

THE MECHANISTIC CONCEPTION OF LIFE

Preface

1. The Mechanisitic Conception of Life

2. The Significance of Tropisms for Pyschology

3. Some Fundamental Facts and Conceptions concerning the Comparative Physiology of the Central Nervous System

4. Pattern Adaptation of Fishes and the Mechanism of Vision

5. On Some Facts and Principles of Physiological Morphology

6. On the Nature of the Process of Fertilization

7. On the Nature of Formative Stimulation (Artificial Parthenogenesis)

8. The Prevention of the Death of the Egg through the Act of Fertilization

9. The Role of Salts in the Preservation of Life

10. Experimental Study of the Influence of Environment on Animals

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Title:

The mechanistic conception of life : by Jacques Loeb ; edited by Donald Fleming.

Author:

Loeb, Jacques, 1859-1924

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The mechanistic conception of life : by Jacques Loeb ; edited by Donald Fleming.
Loeb, Jacques, 1859-1924
Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c1964.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07506

Subject Headings:

• Life (Biology)
• Biology
• Biology -- Philosophy
• Mechanism (Philosophy)

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