Order and Life

Joseph Needham

ISBN 10: 0262640015 / ISBN 13: 9780262640015

Published by The MIT Press March 1968, 1968

About this Item

used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. spine and margins are sunned. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Order and Life
• Publisher: The MIT Press March 1968
• Publication Date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262640015
• ISBN 13: 9780262640015
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: VG
• Seller catalogs:
  • SCI biology / natural history

About this title

Synopsis

First published in 1936, this book contains the text of the Terry Lectures for 1934-5, originally delivered at Yale University. Needham discusses the nature, deployment, and hierarchical continuity of biological order, as well as the history of scientific investigation into animal development through embryology, genetics and the study of mitosis. The lectures also take the opportunity to draw implicit conclusions on the nature and existence of God, or not, based on the 'oneness of inorganic and organic science'. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of science and the conjunction of science and theology.

Book Description

First published in 1936, this book contains the text of the Terry Lectures for 1934-5, originally delivered at Yale University. Needham discusses the nature, deployment, and hierarchical continuity of biological order, as well as the history of scientific investigation into animal development through embryology, genetics and the study of mitosis.