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Publisher
Free Press
ISBN-10
0743230388
ISBN-13
9780743230384
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2396864
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Publication Name
Soul Made Flesh : the Discovery of the of the Brain--And How It Changed the World
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Subject
Neuroscience, General, History
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Science, Medical
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
20.2 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.4 in
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2003-063144
Reviews
Timothy FerrisAuthor ofThe Whole ShebangandComing of Age in the Milky WayAn uncommonly literate look at a little-explored side of scientific history, and a thumping good read at that., Neal StephensonAuthor ofQuicksilverCarl Zimmer clarifies and illuminates the story of a fascinating thinker who too often gets lost among the crowd of colorful geniuses who made up the early Royal Society. By focusing on a single player in the vast spectacle that was the scientific revolution, and telling his story so well, Zimmer gives us insights into the age when alchemy, and even older systems of thought, gave way to modern science. But this is not only a history book, for readers with an interest in consciousness and the brain will find much here that applies to research going on today., Michael S. Gazzaniga, Ph.D.Author ofNature's MindFew writers can bring back the odor and the sense of time that is present during historic discoveries. Few can capture the extent of human ignorance that is present and is about to be illuminated. Carl Zimmer writes with a rare skill, a captivating skill that brings one back to that place. We all take the present so easily and naturally, and yet each stone along the road to our present modern life was hard to find and to put in place. This is a must read., Steven PinkerAuthor ofHow the Mind WorksandThe Blank SlateToday the idea that every aspect of human experience consists of activity in the brain is second nature to some people and an 'astonishing hypothesis' -- or even sacrilege -- to others. But few are aware of the ancestry of this idea.Soul Made Fleshtells the fascinating story of how people first became aware of one of the most radical thoughts the human mind has ever had to think. The writing is vivid and literate, the story compelling, and the modern implications drawn out with skill and verve., Oliver SacksThomas Willis was the first man to come to grips with the human brain, to see how different parts of it had different functions and how the human soul could be embodied in it. InSoul Made Flesh,Carl Zimmer gives a remarkable, beautiful account of England's 'genius century,' and of the intertwined lives of Willis and his contemporaries Harvey, Boyle, and Hooke. Zimmer brings Willis and his intellectual journey to life -- his prose, as always, is clear, vivid, and arresting -- and reminds us how startling and revolutionary his discoveries were.
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
612.8/1
Table Of Content
Table of Contents Introduction:A Bowl of CurdsChapter One:Hearts and Minds, Livers and Stomachs • Greeks explore the soul, puzzle over the brain, and embrace the heart• Christians build a soul from ancient parts• Natural philosophy is born and anatomy becomes a sacred art• Vesalius discovers monkeys where men once stood• The Greeks are transformed, the soul questioned Chapter Two:World Without Soul • Anatomy of the cosmos• Galileo's new sky• Marin Mersenne makes the world a machine• Pierre Gassendi sanctifies the atom• Descartes's anatomy of clear ideas• The human body as earthen machine• The soul climbs into its cockpit• An arrest• The perfect argument• The ice queen makes Descartes an offer• The captive leaves its prison Chapter Three:Make Motion Cease • Thomas Willis with the beasts of the field• Protestants and Puritans• The divine right of kings and the complaints of Parliament• God and Aristotle at Oxford• Servant and alchemist• Mystical medicine comes to England Chapter Four:The Broken Heart of the Republic • Charles I stumbles toward war• Fever swings its scythe• Portrait of a physician as a young man• Willis fights for his king• Oxford dark and nasty• William Harvey under siege• Harvey at the school of Aristotle• Harvey finds the soul in the blood and says little about the brain• Harvey discovers the circle of blood• Oliver Cromwell tightens the noose• Surrender to madness Chapter Five:Pisse-Prophets Among the Puritans • Thomas Willis returns• Medicine in the marketplace• Ferments dissolve the four humors• The Puritans demand an oath• The Oxford Experimental Philosophy Club• William Petty: From Thomas Hobbes's mouth to Thomas Willis's ear• Charles becomes a martyr to the people• England the republic• The madness of defeat• The Miraculous Case of Anne Greene, or A Clock Reset • William Petty measures the soul of a nation• Willis hosts an illegal church Chapter Six:The Circle of Willis • William Harvey comes out of retirement• Thomas Willis searches for the agents of fever• The Experimental Philosophy Club fights for its life and for respectability• Hobbes as politician and neurologist• Robert Boyle gives shape to the New Science Chapter Seven:Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Air • Willis stirs up a ferment of atoms• A crude dream of the brain• Cromwell uprooted• Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke pump away the soul• Christopher Wren, surgeon and injector• The return of the king Chapter Eight:A Curious Quilted Ball • The Church of England meets its less than divine leader• Thomas Willis becomes hero of a nation• "I addicted myself to the opening of heads"• Willis discovers a doctrine of the nerves• The Royal Society Chapter Nine:Convulsions • The lady with a migraine• Convulsions in the year of plague and fireChapter Ten:The Science of Brutes• From Oxford to London• Richard Lower transfuses blood into a madman• Lower and Hoo
Synopsis
Soul Made Fleshis the remarkable 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. Chronicled here in vivid detail are their groundbreaking revelations and often gory experiments that first enshrined the brain as the chemical engine of reason, emotion, and madness -- indeed as the very seat of the human soul.Called "as fine a science essayist as we have" byThe New York Times,Zimmer tells the story of this scientific revolution through the lives of a colorful array of alchemists, mystics, utopians, spies, revolutionaries, and kings. He recreates the religious, ethical, and scientific struggles involved in the pioneering autopsies of the brain carried out by Thomas Willis; the discovery of the circulation of blood by William Harvey and his flight from London with his besieged king, Charles I; René Descartes's persecution by Catholics and Protestants alike for his views of the brain and soul; and the experiments and personal dramas of gifted men who forever changed the way science is practiced as they simultaneously upended our view of our human selves and our place in the world.In this distant mirror to our own time of continuing scientific revolution and worldwide social upheaval, Zimmer brings to life the painstaking, innovative discoveries of Willis and his contemporaries -- the taproots of the amazing work of today's neuroscientists, who continue to explore the brain, revealing the hidden workings of emotions, memories, and consciousness. Graced with beautiful illustrations by Christopher Wren, Soul Made Flesh conveys a contagious appreciation for the wonder of the brain, its structure, its many marvelous functions, and the implications for human identity, mind, and morality. It is the definitive history of the dawn of a world-changing science and attitude -- the age of the brain and modern consciousness.
LC Classification Number
QP376.Z555 2004
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