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    Matter, Life, and Generation: Eighteenth-Century Embryology and the Haller-Wolff Debate.Shirley A. Roe - 1981
    A case-study of the interaction between philosophical context and observational data in the practice of Science.
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  2. Matter, Life and Generation: Eighteenth-Century Embryology and the Haller-Wolff Debate.Shirley A. Roe - 1985 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 36 (1):94-99.
     
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    Rationalism and embryology: Caspar Friedrich Wolff's theory of epigenesis.Shirley A. Roe - 1979 - Journal of the History of Biology 12 (1):1-43.
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    Biology, atheism, and politics in eighteenth-century France.Shirley A. Roe - 2010 - In Denis R. Alexander & Ronald L. Numbers (eds.), Biology and Ideology From Descartes to Dawkins. London: University of Chicago Press.
    During the eighteenth century, the specter of atheism was a major concern among many intellectuals in Europe. Many of the leading figures of the period such as François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire refuted atheism at every turn. These debates centered on living organisms, particularly questions about generation. Efforts to explain the process of generation raised biological, religious, and political questions. One popular theory put forward to address the question of generation was preformation, the belief that “germs” had been in existence since (...)
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    The Development of Albrecht Von Haller's Views on Embryology.Shirley A. Roe - 1975 - Journal of the History of Biology 8 (2):167 - 190.
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    The J.H.B. bookshelf.Mark V. Barrow Jr, Keith R. Benson, Paula Findlen, Michael Fortun, Shirley A. Roe & Joel B. Hagen - 1991 - Journal of the History of Biology 24 (2):339-351.
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    Science Against the Unbelievers: The Correspondence of Bonnet and Needham, 1760-1780.Renato Giuseppe Mazzolini, Charles Bonnet, Shirley A. Roe & John Turberville Needham - 1986
    The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.
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    The J.H.B. bookshelf.Shirley A. Roe, Jane Maienschein, Ronald Rainger, Elizabeth B. Keeney & Donald Worster - 1988 - Journal of the History of Biology 21 (3):521-526.
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    The J.H.B. bookshelf.Shirley A. Roe, James A. Secord, Keith R. Benson & Jane Malenschein - 1988 - Journal of the History of Biology 21 (2):351-356.
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    The J.H.B. bookshelf.Shirley A. Roe, Sharon E. Kingsland, Jane Maienschein & Barbara G. Beddall - 1989 - Journal of the History of Biology 22 (1):177-184.
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    The J.H.B. Bookshelf.Shirley A. Roe, Keith R. Benson, Douglas R. Weiner & Janet Browne - 1990 - Journal of the History of Biology 23 (3):529-537.
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    (7 other versions)The J.H.B. bookshelf.Shirley A. Roe, Thomas F. Glick, Joy Harvey, F. Weiling & John Scarborough - 1981 - Journal of the History of Biology 14 (2):355-362.
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    The J.H.B. bookshelf.Shirley A. Roe, Ronald Rainger, John F. Cornell, James J. Bono, Pietro Corsi & William J. Haas - 1985 - Journal of the History of Biology 18 (3):439-446.
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    The J.H.B. Bookshelf.Shirley A. Roe, Keith R. Benson, Georgiana Feldberg & Pietro Corsi - 1984 - Journal of the History of Biology 17 (2):295-301.
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    The J.H.B. bookshelf.Shirley A. Roe, Eugene Cittadino, Sharon E. Kingsland, Janet Browne, Ronald Rainger, A. R. S. & Keith R. Benson - 1986 - Journal of the History of Biology 19 (2):313-322.
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    The J.H.B. bookshelf.Shirley A. Roe, Keith R. Benson, Sharon Kingsland, Eugene Cittadino & Jane Maienschein - 1986 - Journal of the History of Biology 19 (3):489-494.
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    The J.H.B. Bookshelf.Shirley A. Roe, A. R. S., John T. Edsall, Muriel L. Blaisdell & John F. Cornell - 1987 - Journal of the History of Biology 20 (2):281-287.
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    The J.H.B. bookshelf.Shirley A. Roe, Philip J. Pauly, John F. Cornell & Joy Harvey - 1987 - Journal of the History of Biology 20 (3):423-430.
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    The J.H.B. bookshelf.Shirley A. Roe, Keith R. Benson, Joy Harvey & Sharon E. Kingsland - 1987 - Journal of the History of Biology 20 (1):131-135.
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    The J.H.B. bookshelf.Shirley A. Roe, Ronald Rainger, Ralph Colp Jr & Keith R. Benson - 1988 - Journal of the History of Biology 21 (1):165-171.
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    Voltaire versus Needham: atheism, materialism, and the generation of life.Shirley A. Roe - 1985 - Journal of the History of Ideas 46 (1):65.
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    Darwinism Defended: A Guide to the Evolution Controversies. [REVIEW]Shirley A. Roe - 1983 - Journal of the History of Biology 16 (3):441-442.
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  23. Science against the Unbelievers: The Correspondence of Bonnet and Needham, 1760-1780. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 243, Oxford. [REVIEW]Renato G. Mazzolini & Shirley A. Roe - 1991 - Diderot Studies 24:207-210.
     
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    The Iris in Eighteenth-Century Physiology by Renato G. Mazzolini. [REVIEW]Shirley A. Roe - 1982 - Isis 73 (1):124-125.