Crystal creatures: Context for the Dublin Blaschka congress

Historical Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-10

  Sigwart, Julia D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Glass model; History of science; Invertebrates; Irish science

Indexed keywords

GLASS; INVERTEBRATE; NINETEENTH CENTURY;

COUNTY DUBLIN; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; LEINSTER; WESTERN EUROPE;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 41549130439     PISSN: 08912963     EISSN: 10292381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08912960701677291     Document Type: Article

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