Science as a Way of Knowing: The Foundations of Modern Biology

by John Alexander Moore, John A. Moore, John Alexander Moore

Book Overview

For the past twenty-five years John Moore has taught biology instructors how to teach biology--by emphasizing the questions people have asked about life through the ages and the ways natural philosophers and scientists have sought the answers. This book makes Moore's uncommon wisdom available to students in a lively and richly illustrated account of the history and workings of life. Employing a breadth of rhetoric strategies--including vividly written...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674794818
• ISBN13: 9780674794818
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 530 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Interesting description of the scientific process

This is a great book for non-scientists who want to know how the scientific thought process works. Moore takes us through the history of biological thought, from the first cavemen to the geneticists of this century. Non-biologists may get bogged down in the last few technical chapters on genetics and development, but the sections on the history of biology are a great read for anyone.