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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
PART ONE: First Things
CHAPTER ONE: “Que les philosophes medicinassent”: Leibniz’s Encounter with Medicine and Its Experimental Context
CHAPTER TWO: The “Hydraulico-Pneumatico-Pyrotechnical Machine of Quasi-Perpetual Motion”: Leibniz on Animal Economy
PART TWO: From Animal Economy to Subtle Anatomy
CHAPTER THREE: Organic Bodies, Part I: Nature and Structure
CHAPTER FOUR: Organic Bodies, Part II: Context and Legacy
PART THREE: The Origins of Organic Form
CHAPTER FIVE: The Divine Preformation of Organic Bodies
CHAPTER SIX: Games of Nature, the Emergence of Organic Form, and the Problem of Spontaneity
PART FOUR: Species
CHAPTER SEVEN: The Nature and Boundaries of Biological Species
Appendixes
1. Directions Pertaining to the Institution of Medicine (1671)
2. The Animal Machine (1677)
3. The Human Body, Like That of Any Animal, Is a Sort of Machine (1680–86)
4. On Writing the New Elements of Medicine (1682–83)
5. On Botanical Method (1701)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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