Jacques Loeb

Jacques Loeb, 1920

The Organism as a Whole: From a Physicochemical Viewpoint (1916), by Jacques Loeb

Jacques Loeb [4] published The Organism as a Whole [3]: From a Physicochemical Viewpoint in 1916. Loeb?s goal for the book was to refute the claim that physics and chemistry were powerless to completely explain whole organisms and their seemingly goal-oriented component processes. Loeb used his new account of science and scientific explanation marshaling evidence to show that physicochemical bi...

"Mechanistic Science and Metaphysical Romance" (1915), by Jacques Loeb

Jacques Loeb [4] published ?Mechanistic Science and Metaphysical Romance? in 1915. His goal for the article was to outline his conception [5] of mechanistic science and its relation to other methods of inquiry. Loeb argued that mechanistic science was the foundation of knowledge and humanity?s progress depended on it. Loeb?s argument altered the account of science he offered in The Mechanistic ...

"On the Nature of the Process of Fertilization and the Artificial Production of Normal Larvae (Plutei) From the Unfertilized Eggs of the Sea Urchin" (1899), by Jacques Loeb

Jacques Loeb [4] developed procedures to make embryos from unfertilized sea urchin [5] eggs in 1899. Loeb called the procedures ?artificial parthenogenesis," and he introduced them and his results in ?On the Nature of the Process of Fertilization and the Artificial Production of Norma Larvae (Plutei) from the Unfertilized Eggs of the Sea Urchin? in an 1899 issue of The American Journal of Physi...

Artificial Parthenogenesis and Fertilization (1913), by Jacques Loeb

Jacques Loeb [5] is best known for his embryological work investigating parthenogenesis in invertebrates. Artificial Parthenogenesis and Fertilization [4] is a revised and English-translated work from his earlier book, Die chemische Entwicklungserregung des tierischen Eies (1900). Artificial Parthenogenesis [6] describes Loeb?s many and varied methodical experiments to initiate egg [7] developm...

"Experiments on Artificial Parthenogenesis in Annelids (Chaetopterus) and the Nature of the Process of Fertilization" (1901), by Jacques Loeb

Jacques Loeb [5] showed that scientists could achieve artificial parthenogenesis [6] with one species of annelid [7] worm through a series of experiments in 1900. Loeb published the results of his experiments in 1901 as ?Experiments on Artificial Parthenogenesis [8] in Annelids (Chaetopterus) and the Nature of the Process of Fertilization,? in The American Journal of Physiology. His results bro...