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The
Sterling Memorial Library holds a rich collection
of materials related to the "cycle of
life" in its stacks and offsite holdings
at the MUDD Library. These works reflect the
long history of exploring the "cycle
of life" experimentally. These selections
trace this story from its origin in the late
18th century naturphilosophie of Humboldt
and E. Darwin, to Dumas' organic chemistry
in the 1830s, to the rise of microbiology
in the work of Pasteur and Cohn in the mid
19th century. Winogradsky's work from 1880-1940
and finally its transformation into ecosystem
ecology, soil microbiology, and Deep Ecology.
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Erasmus
Darwin, Zoonomia, 1793 |
Charles
Darwin, On the Formation of Vegetable Matter by Worms, 1881 |
Alexander
von Humboldt, Cosmos, 1858 |
Dumas
and Boussingault, Balance of Organic Matter, 1844 |
Ferdinand
Cohn, Bacteria, The Smallest Living Beings, 1872 |
Louis
Pasteur, Etudes sur la Biere, 1862 |
Selman
Waksman, Sergei Winogradsky, 1953 |
Selman
Waksman, Humus, 1939 |
Vladimir
Vernadsky, Principles of Biogeochemistry, 1960 |
James
Lovelock, An Homage to Gaia, 1985 |
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