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Thomas Willis... isolated the soul from stars and demons and made the chemical workings of the brain the key to sanity and happiness. Just as important, he helped make the brain a familiar thing.Zimmer applies the same dedicated research and quietly sparkling style to this book as he did to Parasite Rex and At the Water's Edge, distilling reams of historical and scientific information into a concise yet comprehensive narrative. The book's chapters are accompanied by drawings by Willis' contemporary Christopher Wren, whose architectural sensibilities made the brain's structure beautiful to behold. --Therese Littleton
"An uncommonly literate look at a little-explored side of scientific history, and a thumping good read at that."
--Timothy Ferris, author of The Whole Shebang and Coming of Age in the Milky Way
"Few 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."
--Michael S. Gazzaniga, PhD, author of Nature's Mind and David T. McLaughlin Distinguished Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience, Dean of the Faculty, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College. A member of the President's Council on Bioethics, Dr. Gazzaniga conducts research on how the brain enables the mind.
"Carl 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."
--Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon
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