This book is a prologue to the science of biology as we know it. It is a narrative history of two themes of speculation prominent in the writings of eighteenth-century naturalists: that electricity was a prime agent in the economy agent and perhaps the cause of life, and because of their proximity on a scale of being, plants and animals had analogous capacities for performing vital functions. **The book has light tanning. The jacket has several tiny missing pieces and rubbing at the edges.**. Seller Inventory # 003802

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Title: Overtures to Biology: The Speculations of ...

Publisher: Yale University Press

Publication Date: 1964

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

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Ron Robertson, along with his late wife Helen established Rons Bookshop in 1998 as a bricks and mortar bookshop. Helen died in 2014 and Ron carried on running the shop alone and joined the ABE family and commenced selling online in June 2017. Ron decided to close the bricks and mortar shop, from the close of business on December 31 2019 and concentrate on the online business from home. Whilst Rons does not specialise in any particular genre the business has an extensive collection of high quality books of all genres in paperback and hardback.

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