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Discovering Life, Manufacturing Life
Vignais, Pierre V.; Vignais, Paulette M.
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Description for Discovering Life, Manufacturing Life
Paperback. This history on the development of scientific knowledge focuses on the crucial role of the experimental method. It begins with the Greeks and the ancient roots of scientific rationality and journeys to today's trend in genetic manipulation. Num Pages: 428 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; PDX; PDZ; PHVN; PSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 652.
Francis BACON, in his Novum Organum, Robert BOYLE, in his Skeptical Chemist and René DESCARTES, in his Discourse on Method; all of these men were witnesses to the th scientific revolution, which, in the 17 century, began to awaken the western world from a long sleep. In each of these works, the author emphasizes the role of the experimental method in exploring the laws of Nature, that is to say, the way in which an experiment is designed, implemented according to tried and tested te- niques, and used as a basis for drawing conclusions that are based only on results, ... Read more
Francis BACON, in his Novum Organum, Robert BOYLE, in his Skeptical Chemist and René DESCARTES, in his Discourse on Method; all of these men were witnesses to the th scientific revolution, which, in the 17 century, began to awaken the western world from a long sleep. In each of these works, the author emphasizes the role of the experimental method in exploring the laws of Nature, that is to say, the way in which an experiment is designed, implemented according to tried and tested te- niques, and used as a basis for drawing conclusions that are based only on results, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
428
Condition
New
Number of Pages
418
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789401782036
SKU
V9789401782036
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About Vignais, Pierre V.; Vignais, Paulette M.
Pierre VIGNAIS, was a science doctor, doctor of medicine, was treasurer of the Fondation Roux at the Pasteur Institute of Paris. Professor emeritus of Biochemistry of the medical college of the University Joseph Fourier and director of a URA-CNRS at the ECA. He died in September 2006 at the age of 80. Both he and his wife Paulette published extensively ... Read more
Reviews for Discovering Life, Manufacturing Life
From the reviews: “A strikingly complete yet highly readable history of biomedical sciences, from BCE to the present, would be invaluable to scientists of all ages. In this well-written work translated from the original French version, accomplished biochemists Pierre Vignais … and Paulette Vignais (emer., CNRS, France) went one step further and painted a seamless picture of the evolution ... Read more