SCIENCE AS A WAY OF KNOWING. THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN BIOLOGY [HARDBACK]

MOORE, J. A.

ISBN 10: 067479480X / ISBN 13: 9780674794801

Published by HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, MA, 1993

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MOORE, J. A.: SCIENCE AS A WAY OF KNOWING. THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN BIOLOGY [HARDBACK]. CAMBRIDGE, MA, 1993, x 530 p. figuras, 0 gr. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo. (GD-2-7) 0 gr. Seller Inventory # 26487

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Title: SCIENCE AS A WAY OF KNOWING. THE FOUNDATIONS...

Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, MA

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Tapa dura

Condition: New

Edition: 1ª edición.

Book Type: Libro

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Synopsis:

For the past twenty-five years John Moore has taught biology instructors how to teach biology--by emphasizing the questions people have asked about life through the ages and the ways natural philosophers and scientists have sought the answers. This book makes Moore's uncommon wisdom available to students in a lively and richly illustrated account of the history and workings of life. Employing a breadth of rhetoric strategies--including vividly written case histories, hypotheses and deductions, and chronological narrative--Science as a Way of Knowing provides not only a cultural history of biology but also a splendid introduction to the procedures and values of science.

From the Back Cover:

This volume is a worthy addition to the literature on the history of biology. It explains the foundations of evolution, genetics, and development and the logic behind scientific enquiry with a clarity that will put most writers of...textbooks to shame. It both demystifies science and exalts it.-Nature