Lerner, K Lee

Scientific Thought In Context:-3 Vol.Set - New York Thomson Gale 2009 - 1394p

includes index and biblioraphy

Astronomy and Cosmology: A Mechanistic Universe.................................1
Astronomy and Cosmology: Eig Bang Theory and Modern
Cosmology............................................. 11
Astronomy and Cosmology: Cosmology ....................... 20
Astronomy and Cosmology: Geocentric and Heliocentric
Models of the Universe
Astronomy and Cosmology: Nucleosynthesis and Stellar
Evolution Bind Humanity to the Cosmos ........................... 43
Astronomy and Cosmology: Setting the Cosmic Calendar:
Arguing the Age of the Cosmos and Earth................... 48
Astronomy and Cosmology: Western and Non-Western
Cultural Practices in Ancient Astronomy......................... 55
Astronomy and Space Science: Astronomy Emerges from Astrology............. 61
Astronomy and Space Science: Black Holes ........................... 77
Astronomy and Space Science: Galactic Astronomy................................ 77
Astronomy and Space Science: Pulsars, Quasars, and
Distant Questions..................................................... 91
Astronomy and Space Science: Solar System ....................... 102
Astronomy and Space Science: Space Exploration ................ 116
Astronomy and Space Science: Stellar Astronomy................................. 129
Astronomy and Space Science: The Telescope.............. 142
Biology: Botany.......................... 150
Biology: Cell Biology......................... 157
Biology: Classification Systems........................... 167
Biology: Comparative Morphology....................... 177
Biology: Concepts of Heredity and Change Prior
to the Rise of Evolutionary Theory.................................................... 180
Biology: Developmental Biology....................................................... 185
Biology: cology.................................... 190
Biology: Evolutionary Theory.......................................................... 198
Biology: Genetics.................................. 212
Biology: Genetics: DNA and the Genetic Code............. 228
Biology: Genetics: DNA Evidence .......................... 237
Biology: Genetics: The Human Genome............................................ 242
Biology: Marine Biology................................................................ 251
Biology: Miller-Urey Experiment.....................................................264
Biology: Ontology and Phylogeny.............................. 270
Biology: Paleontology.................................. 274
Biology:Sociobiology........................ 286
Biology: Zoology................................... 295
Biomedicine and Health: Antibiotics and Antiseptics.......................... .304
Biomedicine and Health: Bacteriology.......................... 318
Biomedicine and Health: Blood..................... 328
Biomedicine and Health: Cancer and Oncology................................... 335
Biomedicine and Health: Dissection and Vivisection.............................343
Biomedicine and Health: Embryology ............................. 356
Biomedicine and Health: Epidemiology............................................. 363
Biomedicine and Health: Galen and Humoral Theory........................... 373
Biomedicine and Health: Hormonal Regulation of the Body................... 380
Biomedicine and Health: Human Gross Anatomy................................ 386
Biomedicine and Health: Immunity and the Immune System .................. 392
Biomedicine and Health: Medical Imaging
and Non-Invasive Medicine .................................... 398
Biomedicine and Health: Nutrition ....................... 403
Biomedicine and Health: Organ Transplantation................................ 415
Biomedicine and Health: Physiology .................... 421
Biomedicine and Health: Prions and Koch`s Postulates......................... 428
Biomedicine and Health: Psychology and Psychiatry.............................. 434
Biomedicine and Health: Astronomy and Cosmology: A Mechanistic Universe.................................1
Astronomy and Cosmology: Eig Bang Theory and Modern
Cosmology..........

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