The Logic of Life: A History of Heredity(Trans. Betty e Spillmann) & the Possible And the Actual (Peregrine Books) - Softcover

Jacob, Francois

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140552421 ISBN 13: 9780140552423

Publisher: Penguin, 1989

Synopsis

An account of the development of an intellectual discipline, tracing the interplay between received ideas, experiment and creative thinking, and between intellectual currents and the practical development of technology in the outside world.

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Review

ÝOne of¨ the most important discussions yet published of the recent advances in molecular biology. . . .

ÝA¨ lucid account of man's changing ideas about heredity. ÝIt¨ seizes and stimulates the imagination. -- Arnold W. Ravin "Science"

Franç ois Jacob, who won the Nobel Prize in 1965 for his work on genetics, has written an unusual and illuminating history of his discipline. It is not so much a history of science as a history of the ideas of science.

Fran?ois Jacob, who won the Nobel Prize in 1965 for his work on genetics, has written an unusual and illuminating history of his discipline. It is not so much a history of science as a history of the ideas of science.

Franois Jacob, who won the Nobel Prize in 1965 for his work on genetics, has written an unusual and illuminating history of his discipline. It is not so much a history of science as a history of the ideas of science. -- Edward Edelson, Washington Post Book World
[One of] the most important discussions yet published of the recent advances in molecular biology. . . . -- The Times Literary Supplement
[One of] the most important discussions yet published of the recent advances in molecular biology. . . . -- "The Times Literary Supplement

Brilliant. . . . One thing the book reveals to the general reader is the interconnection of the development of biological ideas with the development of the rest of science and technology.--Jeremy Bernstein "The New Yorker "

[A] lucid account of man's changing ideas about heredity. [It] seizes and stimulates the imagination.--Arnold W. Ravin "Science "

Fran ois Jacob, who won the Nobel Prize in 1965 for his work on genetics, has written an unusual and illuminating history of his discipline. It is not so much a history of science as a history of the ideas of science.--Edward Edelson "Washington Post Book World "

From the Back Cover

"The most remarkable history of biology that has ever been written."--Michel Foucault

"A great story. . . . A compact encyclopedia of biology, it manages to convey, for all the weight of its content, a sense of continual excitement and wonderment."--Lewis Thomas, author of The Lives of a Cell

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140552421
• ISBN 13: 9780140552423
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448