John Fleming

The Philosophy of Zoology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This two-volume Philosophy of Zoology, published in 1822, was borrowed by the young Charles Darwin from Edinburgh University Library.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9781108001656
• ISBN-10: 1108001653
• Artikelnr.: 26968811

Autorenporträt

John Fleming is a 77-year-old retired academic. After completing his undergraduate degrees in politics and psychology, he completed his PhD at Griffith University in 1992 in philosophy and medical ethics. He was Foundation Director of Adelaide's Southern Cross Bioethics Institute, 1987-2004, a foundation member of UNESCO's International Bioethics Committee (1993-1996), and has served on many Federal and State government policy advisory committees in Australia. He was an elected delegate to the Australian Constitutional Convention (1998), a member of the Council of the National Museum of Australia, from 2003-2009, and Foundation President of Australia's first tertiary liberal arts college, Campion College, Old Toongabbie, Australia (2004-2009). He was a Corresponding Member of the Pontifical Academy for Life (Vatican) between 1996-2016. He is the author of nine books and many articles on bioethics and public policy.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Divisions of natural science
1. Division of natural objects into organised and inorganic
2. Peculiar characters of organised bodies
3. Distinguishing characters of animals and vegetables
4. On the polity of nature
5. On the substances which enter into the composition of the bodies of animals
6. Cutaneous system
7. Osseous system
8. Muscular system
9. Nervous system
10. Organs of perception
11. Faculties of the mind
12. Digestive system
13. Circulating system
14. Peculiar secretions
15. Reproductive system.