Book
The song of the cell an exploration of medicine and the new human / Siddhartha Mukherjee.
Record details
- ISBN: 1982117354
- ISBN: 9781982117351
- Physical Description: xvii, 473 pages, 8 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2022.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | Cytology. Cytology > History. Cytology > Research. Microbiology. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Town of Plymouth.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pease Public Library | 571.63 MUKHERJEE
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34598001003139 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Summary:
Mukherjee begins this magnificent story in the late 1600s, when a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth-merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked down their handmade microscopes. What they saw introduced a radical concept that swept through biology and medicine, touching virtually every aspect of the two sciences, and altering both forever. It was the fact that complex living organisms are assemblages of tiny, self-contained, self-regulating units. Our organs, our physiology, our selveshearts, blood, brainsare built from these compartments. Hooke christened them cells.