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1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface -- PART 1 The Vertical Human: Philosopher of Nature -- 1 Anthropos, the First of the Animals -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Anthropos the axis of the world -- 2 From Aristotle to the 16th Century: The Eclipse of Science -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Comparative anatomy of apes and humans from Aristotle to Galen -- 2.3. Decadence and rebirth of natural philosophy and human anatomy -- 3 The 16th Century: From Generation to Human Physiology -- 3.1. Ambroise Paré (1510-1590), father of French surgery with "more than barbaric Latin" |
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3.2. André Vésale (1514-1564), the audacity of objectivity in the face of Galen's anthropo-simian chimeras -- 3.3. Jacobus Sylvius (1478-1555): defending Galen body and soul -- 3.4. Gabriele Fallope (1523-1562): freedom of dissection, the fine anatomy of the ear and cranial base -- 3.5. Bartolomeo Eustachi (Bartholomaeus Eustachius, c. 1523-1562): the human fetus and the monkey -- 3.6. The embryo, the fetus and blood circulation with the maternal body -- 3.7. On human generation and fetal development -- 3.8. Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608-1679): the dynamic geometry of the vertical body |
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4 Centuries in Search of Light -- 4.1. Independent Academies of Sciences -- 4.2. The beginning of Man and Russian dolls -- 5 The Century of Naturalistic Enlightenment -- 5.1. The Jardin royal des plantes: a new natural history of animals -- PART 2 The Place of Humans among Current and Fossilized Primates -- 6 From Natural Curiosity Cabinets to the First Primate Collections -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Comparative anatomy at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle -- 7 The Transition from the 18th to the 19th Century: Birth of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy |
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7.1. Oryctography or the study of the disposition of minerals and fossils in the soil -- 7.2. Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), the French Revolution and the revolution of the globe -- 8 The Slow Recognition of Humans' Simian Origins -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck or the audacity of the transformist theory of organization plans -- 9 Embryology, Fixist Anthropology and the Neanderthal Man -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. The origins of the vertical anatomy of humans: between poetic metaphysics, transcendental finality and climatic influences |
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9.3. Great confusion between Linnaean nesting classification and the emergence of organizational plans -- 10 The Decline of Transformism at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle -- 10.1. The decline of transformism despite the discovery of the first monkey fossils -- 10.2. A theory lacking internal coherence -- 11 Transformist Paleontology Inaugurates the 20th Century -- 11.1. The rebirth -- 11.2. Natural selection and the scale of human societies -- References -- Index -- End User License Agreement |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Posture.
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Human beings -- Attitude and movement.
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Posture
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Human beings -- Attitude and movement
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Posture
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
111985489X |
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9781119854890 |
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