Historical aspects of the origin of diffusion theory in 19th-century mechanistic materialism

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 139-156

  Wheatley, Denys N ^a   Agutter, Paul S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; EVOLUTION; KINETICS; OSMOSIS; PHILOSOPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THEORY;

EID: 0030830816     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pbm.1996.0007     Document Type: Article

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