Thomas Huxley Charles darwin - Lessons in Elementary Physiology - 1866

Superb original illustrated edition of this elementary physiology manual intended to present in a clear, progressive, and scientific way the main phenomena that help understand how the human body works and, more broadly, the fundamental principles of animal life -

Published a few years after the appearance of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, the book belongs to a period in which the biological sciences underwent a profound transformation and where the experimental study of the organism began to move away from traditional explanations based on vitalist or speculative conceptions -

Huxley seeks above all to give the reader a rational understanding of the body, starting from its simplest elements and progressing to its most complex functions -

Thomas Huxley Charles darwin - Lessons in Elementary Physiology - 1866 - Macmillan and Co. -
XIX + 319 Pages.

Good condition of the binding, work in its full green publisher's cloth binding, light signs of wear, heads slightly depressed, small edge wear on the covers, speckled cut edges, smooth spine adorned with gold fillets, the title and author's name gold, blind-stamped fillets framing the covers -

Good interior condition, the work enriched with beautiful black and white engravings in text and outside text, text clean, interior fresh, modern endpapers in good condition, fine copy -

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