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Why Do Animals Breathe? Physiological Problems and Iatromechanical Research in the Early Eighteenth Century
by Hall, Diana Long
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0405138555
- ISBN 13
- 9780405138553
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About This Item
New York: Arno Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 296pp; Tan buckram boards with red titling to front & spine, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Near Fine condition. History of the research on the problem of why animals breathe from William Harvey's De Motu Cardis (1628) to Albrecht von Haller's Elementa Physiologiae (1757). Volume in the series, The Development of Science, Sources for the History of Science.
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- Title
- Why Do Animals Breathe? Physiological Problems and Iatromechanical Research in the Early Eighteenth Century
- Author
- Hall, Diana Long
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0405138555
- ISBN 13
- 9780405138553
- Publisher
- Arno Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- science history physiology breathing pulmonary lungs animals biology zoology medicine medical
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- Science;
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