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Introduction- A History of Science
I have included extracts from the 4 volume set of A HISTORY OF SCIENCE by Henry Smith Williams, M.D., LL.D. assisted by Edward H. Williams, M.D. A set of texts published early in the 20th century. I recommend reading the 4 volumes as they are an interesting read and written with a different "feel" in language to those texts written today where brevity is carried to such lengths as to make most writings either bland or uninteresting.
This section of notes provides an historic context for the notes covering recent developments in Embryology Research.
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