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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Hakim, Joy, author.     Subjects     Biology -- History -- Juvenile literature.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hakim, Joy, author.       by title:      Biology's beginnings...         MARC Display

Biology's beginnings / Joy Hakim. by Hakim, Joy, author. Somerville, Massachusetts : MITeen Press, 2023. Subjects Biology -- History -- Juvenile literature. ISBN:  9781536222937 (hardcover) : 1536222933 (hardcover) Series:  Hakim, Joy. Discovering life's story ; v. 1. Description:  185 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm. Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Introduction: The Islamic world, the Christian world, and some foundational life science -- A scientific superstar, a plague, and an influential artist-thinker -- Cultures clash, and a king sends his doctor to America -- The sharp-eyed lynxes want to know more: One of them is named Galileo -- A philosopher named Bacon and a bloody doctor -- Tongues that are teeth: A shark, Steno, and the Cimento -- Spontaneous? Why not? -- Magnified wonders help create an awesome book -- Seeing more is better: Enhancing magnification; using an artist's eyes -- The name game: Linnaeus tries to name everything -- A big-time adventurer and a quiet scholar -- Three icons; one is pasteurized -- A tobacco disease in Holland baffles the experts -- Looking ahead. Requests:  0 Summary:  From the earliest questioning about how life-forms began to the original use of the word virus, Hakim begins to unfold the history of our scientific quest to understand life itself. This book, the first of a four-part MITeen series, charts the evolution of life science. Hakim begins in the Islamic Golden Age, and takes readers up to the late 1800s, when the origins of the virus was discovered by a baffled Dutch biologist who found a tiny infectious particle destroying tobacco crops.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Aina Haina Public Library YA -- New Books 570.9 Ha Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Ewa Beach P/S Library YA -- Nonfiction 570.9 Ha Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library YA -- Nonfiction 570.9 Ha Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library YA -- Nonfiction 570.9 Ha Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library YA -- Nonfiction 570.9 Ha Checked out 06/04/2024 Add Copy to MyList Liliha Public Library YA -- New Books 570.9 Ha Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library YA -- Nonfiction 570.9 Ha Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Naalehu Public Library YA -- Nonfiction 570.9 Ha Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Waipahu Public Library YA -- Nonfiction 570.9 Ha Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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