The Boxwood Press: Hydra and the Birth of Experimental Biology
HYDRA
and the Birth of Experimental Biology--1744
Premiere Translation from the French with historical and scientific evaluation.
by Sylvia with Howard Lenhoff, Ph.D
1986, 7.5x10, 279 pp., illus., cloth, $28.50, ISBN: 0-940168-01-4
ABRAHAM TREMBLEY, Genevan biologist in the Age of Enlightenment, first demonstrated
regeneration using small freshwater animals to which he gave the name Hydra. He
was the first to graft animal tissues, demonstrate asexual reproduction through
budding, and achieve 50 other scientific "firsts" that remain valid today.
Howard Lenhoff, Professor of Biological Sciences, UC Irvine, has devoted 30
years to studying hydras. The Lenhoffs are the first to translate this appealing
and readable essay on experimental biology into English.
"Nature must be explained by Nature, not by our own views." Abraham Trembley
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