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From Sunlight to Insight : Jan IngenHousz, the Discovery of Photosynthesis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bruxelles : ASP, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (407 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789054876458
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: From Sunlight to InsightDDC classification:
  • 572.46092
LOC classification:
  • Q143.I54 -- .M34 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Front -- contents -- A first speck of light -- The first decades of curiosity 1730-1779 -- The quest for the secret of the sunlight 1779-1780 -- A life in letters, the story continues 1780-1799 -- Content, contest and context -- A crucial instrument: the rise and fall of the eudiometer -- Memory and priority: who was first? and why has he been forgotten? -- Science as IngenHousz knew it &amp -- science as we know it -- A case of complexity: ecological questions for the philosophy &amp -- history of science -- Photosynthesis, a bright future for the light of the sun -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Bibliography.
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Front -- contents -- A first speck of light -- The first decades of curiosity 1730-1779 -- The quest for the secret of the sunlight 1779-1780 -- A life in letters, the story continues 1780-1799 -- Content, contest and context -- A crucial instrument: the rise and fall of the eudiometer -- Memory and priority: who was first? and why has he been forgotten? -- Science as IngenHousz knew it &amp -- science as we know it -- A case of complexity: ecological questions for the philosophy &amp -- history of science -- Photosynthesis, a bright future for the light of the sun -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Bibliography.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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