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Soul Made Flesh

The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World

By Carl Zimmer

Paperback | 9780743272056

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In this unprecedented history of a scientific revolution, award-winning author and journalist Carl Zimmer tells the definitive story of the dawn of the age of the brain and modern consciousness. Told here for the first time, the dramatic tale of how the secrets of the brain were discovered in sevContinue

In this unprecedented history of a scientific revolution, award-winning author and journalist Carl Zimmer tells the definitive story of the dawn of the age of the brain and modern consciousness. Told here for the first time, the dramatic tale of how the secrets of the brain were discovered in seventeenth-century England unfolds against a turbulent backdrop of civil war, the Great Fire of London, and plague. At the beginning of that chaotic century, no one knew how the brain worked or even what it looked like intact. But by the century's close, even the most common conceptions and dominant philosophies had been completely overturned, supplanted by a radical new vision of 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 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 the often gory experiments that first enshrined the brain as the physical seat of intelligence -- and the seat of the human soul. Soul Made Flesh conveys a contagious appreciation for the brain, its structure, and its many marvelous functions, and the implications for human identity, mind, and morality.

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  • The soul in a bowl of curds

    Soul Made Flesh: Thomas Willis, the Discovery of the Brain and How It Changed the World by Carl Zimmer 351pp, Heinemann, £17.99 We live, the science writer Carl Zimmer tells us in this engagingly written book, in a "neurocentric age". Ask anyone rais ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Soul Made Flesh By Carl Zimmer

    Science is not now, nor has it ever been, a glamour job. It involves patience, focus and the ability to withstand disappointment time and time again. Today's scientists can use modern technology to do many repetitive tasks, and they usually do their ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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    I just started but so far I can't put it down and get frustrated when I get interrupted. I usually like history and personal biographies but after reading the history of cancer and starting this one I may read more of this genre.

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Paperback 384 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0743272056
  • ISBN-13: 9780743272056
  • Publisher: Free Press
  • Pub date: May 24, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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