An outline of the rise of biology and of the epochs in its history.-Vesalius and the overthrow of authority in science.-William Harvey and experimental observation.-The introduction of the microscope and the progress of independent observation.-The progress of minute anatomy.--Linnaeus and scientific natural history.-Cuvier and the rise of comparative anatomyy. -Bichat and the birth of histology.-The rise physiology. Harvey. Haller. Johannes Müller.-Van Baer and te rise of embryology-The...
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