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  title info:
    title: Sergei Vinogradskii and the Cycle of Life
    sub title: From the Thermodynamics of Life to Ecological Microbiology, 1850-1950
  name:
    name part: Ackert, Lloyd.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 194 p. online resource.
  abstract: This is one of those biographies that provide a window onto the broader understanding of science in its social and cultural context. Using Sergei Nikolaevich Vinogradskii’s career and scientific research trajectory as a point of entry, this book illustrates the manner in which microbiologists, chemists, botanists, and plant physiologists inscribed the concept of a “cycle of life” into their investigations. Their research transformed a longstanding notion into the fundamental approaches and concepts that underlay the new ecological disciplines that emerged in the 1920s. The book presents a reconstruction of significant episodes of Vinogradskii’s laboratory practices and the role of theory in their development. It paints the broader picture of the history of ecology, microbiology and soil science and how these are uniquely united: through the concept of the cycle of life. .
  table of contents: Bibliography Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. Plant Physiology -- Chapter 1. A Synthesis of Thermodynamics and Bioenergetics in Plant Physiology: The Investigation of a Moody Apprentice -- Part II Experiment and Natural History -- Chapter 2: The Exchange of Matter and the Transformation of Energy -- Chapter 3. The Laboratory is Nature: Investigating the Cycle of Life under the Microscope -- Chapter 4. Free Nature in the Laboratory -- Part III. Ecology -- Chapter 5. Vinogradskii’s Transformation from Plant Physiologist to Ecologist, 1890-1920 -- Chapter 6 - Soil Science and Russian Ecology -- Part IV. French Agriculture -- Chapter 7. The Master of Brie-Compte-Robert and his ‘Direct Method:’ Translating the Cycle of Life into Ecology -- Chapter 8. Ecological Microbiology -- Part V. The Impact of Vinogradskii’s Work -- Chapter 9. Science is Ecological and Ecology is Scientific: The Uptake of Vinogradskii’s Direct Methods -- Chapter 10. Vinogradskii’s Reception in Russian and Soviet Microbiology Chapter 11. Conclusions.- Bibliography.
  note: by Lloyd Ackert.
  subject:
    topic: Science
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Science
  subject:
    topic: Science, general
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  classification: Q1-390
  classification: 500
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 34
  identifier: 9789400751989
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5198-9
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    record creation date: 121030
    record change date: 20151204185722.0
    record identifier: 978-94-007-5198-9