Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. The Gestation of German Biology 1
4. Chapter One. Animism and Organism: G. E. Stahl and the Halle Medical Faculty 13
5. Chapter Two. Making Life Science Newtonian: Albrecht von Haller’s Self- Fashioning as Natural Scientist 37
6. Chapter Three. Albrecht von Haller as Arbiter of German Medicine: Göttingen and Bern (1736– 1777) 71
7. Chapter Four. French Vital Materialism 97
8. Chapter Five. Taking Up the French Challenge: The German Response 122
9. Chapter Six. From Natural History to History of Nature: From Buffon to Kant and Herder (and Blumenbach) 172
10. Chapter Seven. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and the Life Sciences in Germany: His Rise to Eminence from the 1770s 186
11. Chapter Eight. Blumenbach, Kant, and the “Daring Adventure” of an “Archaeology of Nature” 215
12. Chapter Nine. Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer and “an Entirely New Epoch of Natural History” 245
13. Chapter Ten. Polarität und Steigerung: The Self- Organization of Nature and the Actualization of Life 286
14. Chapter Eleven. Naturphilosophie and Physiology 318
15. Acknowledgments 353
16. Notes 355
17. Index of Names 503
18. Index of Subjects 511