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What Sustains Life?
Dan W. Urry
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Description for What Sustains Life?
Hardback. This book brings together three decades worth of collaborative research to address the question "What sustains life?" In part a scientific response to Schrodinger's work "What is Life?" this text contains elements of memoir, history, and a solid, informative scientific core that will interest the general reader, student, and professional researcher. Num Pages: 650 pages, 224 black & white illustrations, 55 colour illustrations, 23 black & white tables, biogra. BIC Classification: PSBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1547.
In the sixth century BC, Thales of Miletus, father of the Ionian Enhghtenment, setting aside the mythic views of Homer and Hesiod asked, "What is the world made of?" and thereby became the first physicist.^ He answered that water is the basis of all matter and thereupon became an often cited example of early Greek reasoning gone astray. However, not only did Thales initi ate scientific inquiry, but also, with reference to living things, he was substantially correct. Living organisms are composed mostly of water, but the unique role of water in living organisms has been wanting for adequate description. ... Read more
In the sixth century BC, Thales of Miletus, father of the Ionian Enhghtenment, setting aside the mythic views of Homer and Hesiod asked, "What is the world made of?" and thereby became the first physicist.^ He answered that water is the basis of all matter and thereupon became an often cited example of early Greek reasoning gone astray. However, not only did Thales initi ate scientific inquiry, but also, with reference to living things, he was substantially correct. Living organisms are composed mostly of water, but the unique role of water in living organisms has been wanting for adequate description. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Birkhauser Boston Inc United States
Number of pages
650
Condition
New
Number of Pages
632
Place of Publication
Secaucus, United States
ISBN
9780817643461
SKU
V9780817643461
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