A History of Embryology (1959), by Joseph Needham
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In 1931 embryologist and historian Joseph Needham [3] published a well-received threevolume treatise titled Chemical Embryology [4]. The first four chapters from this work were delivered as lectures on Speculation, Observation, and Experiment [5], as Illustrated by the History of Embryology at the University of London. The same lectures were later released as a book published in 1934 titled A History of Embryology. This monograph represents one of the first general accounts of the history of embryology [6] and presents embryology [6] as a history of intertwined ideas, a style of historical writing advanced by noted biology historian Jane Oppenheimer. A revised 1959 edition of the text published by Abelard and Schuman, New York, examines the history of embryology [6] from antiquities to the mid-nineteenth century. Arthur Hughes [7], lecturer in anatomy at Cambridge University [8], is credited by Needham as providing technical assistance with the new version.
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