Soul made flesh : the discovery of the brain, and how it changed the world

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Soul made flesh : the discovery of the brain, and how it changed the world

Title remainder

the discovery of the brain, and how it changed the world

Statement of responsibility

Carl Zimmer

Title variation

Thomas Willis, the English Civil War and the mapping of the mind

Creator

• Zimmer, Carl, 1966-

Subject

• Brain
• Brain -- History
• Brain -- Miscellanea
• Hersenen
• Biographies
• Ziel
• Neurowetenschappen

Genre

• Miscellanea
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

"Soul Made Flesh is the untold story of a dramatic turning point in history - the exciting discovery of how the human brain works. In an unprecedented examination of how the secrets of the brain were revealed in seventeenth-century England, award-winning author Carl Zimmer tells an extraordinary tale that unfurls against a deadly backdrop of civil war, plague, and the Great Fire of London. At the beginning of that turbulent century, no one knew how the brain worked or even what it looked like intact. By the century's close, the science of the brain had taken root, helping to overturn many of the most common misconceptions and dominant philosophies about man, God, and the universe. Presiding over the rise of this new scientific paradigm was the founder of modern neurology, Thomas Willis, a fascinating, sympathetic, even heroic figure who stands at the center of an extraordinary group of scientists and philosophers known as the Oxford circle

Cataloging source

EUW

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

QP376

LC item number

.Z555 2004

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography