‎BOSE (Jacadis Chunder)‎
‎Physiologie de l'ascension de la sève. Traduit par Nicolas Deniker‎

‎P., Gauthier-Villars, 1927, un volume in 8 relié en demi-chagrin marron, couvertures conservées (reliure de l'époque), 27pp., 286pp., 93 figures dans le texte‎

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‎---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ---- "Bose's improvemens in the coherer, a tube of iron filings widely used as an early forme of radio detector, were of both scientific and technological importance, and led him to formulate a more general theory of the properties of contact-sensitive substances that figures in the history of solid-state physics. Bose was struck by the way in which the responses of certain inorganic substances to various stimuli resembled biological response. That observation led him to compare the behaviors of animal and plant tissue... His papers and lectures on these subjects fell short of general acceptance... Today, when biophysics is a generally recognized discipline and comparative physiology rests on a more scientific basis, the idea that animal and plant tissues exhibit similar responses seems less controversial and may even be taken as foreshadowing Norbert Wiener's cybernetics. Bose aroused general admiration, however, for the extremely sensitive automatic recorders he devises to measure plant growth with great precision and for the way in which he used them to accumulate records of microscopic changes causes by various stimuli . (DSB II p. 325)**A7AR‎