blais@emx.utexas.edu (Donald Blais) (12/03/90)
Needham, Joseph
A History of Embryology
Abelard-Schuman, New York, 1959
Chapter 1: EMBRYOLOGY IN ANTIQUITY
Chapter 2: EMBRYOLOGY FROM GALEN TO THE RENAISSANCE
Chapter 3: EMBRYOLOGY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Chapter 4: EMBRYOLOGY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
This book reviews the history of embryology from ancient times to the
18th century. Egyptian, Indian, and Greek thinking on the subject is
addressed in Chapter 1. Christian, Jewish, and Muslim ideas are found
in Chapter 2. A chart on p 63 illustrates the period 600 BC to 600 AD.
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