1710–1784A Geneva (now part of Switzerland) naturalist who discovered the regeneration of Hydra.
Keywords: regeneration; Hydra; Réaumur; experimental biology; microscopy
Trembley, Abraham
MJ Ratcliff, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002408
| Further Reading | |
| book Trembley A (1744) Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire d'un genre de polype d¢eau douce à bras en forme de cornes. Leide: Verbeek. | |
| Trembley A (1747) On several species of water insects of the Polypus kind. Philosophical Transactions 44(484): 627–655. | |
| book Baker JR (1952) Abraham Trembley of Geneva. Scientist and Philosopher 1710–1784. London: Edward Arnold. | |
| Buscaglia M (1985) The rhetoric of proof and persuasion utilized by Abraham Trembley. Archives des Sciences Genève 38(3): 305–319. | |
| book Dawson VP (1987) Nature's Enigma: The Problem of the Polyp in the Letters of Bonnet, Trembley and Réaumur. Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society. | |
| book Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1970–1980) Gillispie CC (ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Lenhoff S and Lenhoff HM (1986) Hydra and the Birth of Experimental Biology 1744. Pacific Grove, CA: Boxwood Press. | |
