Harvard professor emeritus Everett I. Mendelsohn stands on the Great Wall of China in July 2005. Mendelsohn, known for his pioneering work studying the history of biology and the relationship between ...

Overall, I find Gary Freeman's review of the book I edited, Defining Biology, (The Scientist, November 17, 1986) to be a reasonable one that endorses the value of these essays from the 1890s. I do ...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Ancient Greece and Rome -- The Facts. The Birth of Biology -- Overview of Ancient Greek and Roman Biological Sciences -- Hippocratic Medicine ; Aristotle -- Galen’s ...

Introduction, the science of biology -- Beginnings in biology -- Thinkers in ancient Greece -- Practitioners in the Hellenistic and Arabic cultures -- Founding of universities and artistic renaissance ...