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Men, Microscopes, and Living Things

by Katherine B Shippen Author

(From Amazon): Katherine Shippen collaborated with Anthony Ravielli, the illustrator to give a history of the study of biology for students in the middle school grades. She beautiful tells the story of the progression of scientific discoveries that built upon one another to give us our present day understanding of the created world. First published in 1955, Shippen republished it in 1968 under the title of So Many Marvels. Katherine B. Shippen was born on April 1, 1892, and spent her life as a history teacher, museum curator and children's author. She died on February 20, 1980. During her career as an author, Shippen published 21 books won the Newbery Honor Award twice, one of which was for Men, Microscopes, and Living Things.

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Additional Details

Resource Type
Book
ISBN
978-0692746158
Print Status
In Print
Chapters
18
Pages
196
Publisher
Living Library Press
Edition
Re-Publication ed.
Copyright
2016

Chapters

  • I Between the Heights and the Depths
  • II The First Biologist
  • III Pliny's Tall Tales
  • IV Herb-Gatherers
  • V Hedgehogs and Unicorns
  • VI Vesalius and Harvey Use Their Eyes
  • VII "The Understanding Must Be Stretched"
  • VIII "So Many Marvels..."
  • IX "You Are Linnaeus!"
  • X The Baron and the Fossils
  • XI Lamarck and the Ladder of Life
  • XII The Birth and Growth of Darwin's Theory
  • XIII Von Baer and His Embryos
  • XIV Schleiden and Schwann Agree on a Theory
  • XV The Stuff of Life
  • XVI Pea Vines and Mathematics
  • XVII Primroses in a Potato Field
  • XVIII We Are Still At the Beginning

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