The Boxwood Press - Hydra and the birth of Experimental Biology


New Titles In Preparation Area Studies Biography Natural Science Psychobiology Miscellaneous Order	Premiere Translation from the French with historical and scientific evaluation. by Sylvia with Howard Lenhoff, Ph.D 1986, 7.5x10, 279 pp., illus., cloth, $28.50, ISBN: 0-940168-01-4 ABRAHAM TREMBLEY, Genevan biologist in the Age of Enlightenment, first demonstrated regeneration using small freshwater animals to which he gave the name Hydra. He was the first to graft animal tissues, demonstrate asexual reproduction through budding, and achieve 50 other scientific "firsts" that remain valid today. Howard Lenhoff, Professor of Biological Sciences, UC Irvine, has devoted 30 years to studying hydras. The Lenhoffs are the first to translate this appealing and readable essay on experimental biology into English. "Nature must be explained by Nature, not by our own views." --Abraham Trembley

Hydra and the Birth of Experimental Biology - 1744

New Titles
In Preparation
Area Studies
Biography
Natural Science
Psychobiology
Miscellaneous

Premiere Translation from the French with historical and scientific evaluation.

by Sylvia with Howard Lenhoff, Ph.D

1986, 7.5x10, 279 pp., illus., cloth, $28.50, ISBN: 0-940168-01-4

ABRAHAM TREMBLEY, Genevan biologist in the Age of Enlightenment, first demonstrated regeneration using small freshwater animals to which he gave the name Hydra. He was the first to graft animal tissues, demonstrate asexual reproduction through budding, and achieve 50 other scientific "firsts" that remain valid today. Howard Lenhoff, Professor of Biological Sciences, UC Irvine, has devoted 30 years to studying hydras. The Lenhoffs are the first to translate this appealing and readable essay on experimental biology into English.

"Nature must be explained by Nature, not by our own views." --Abraham Trembley