Brain Renaissance: From Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience

by Andreas Vesalius, Marco Catani, Stefano Sandrone

Brain Renaissance: From Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience is published on the 500th anniversary of the birth and the 450th anniversary of the death of Vesalius. The authors translated those Latin chapters of the Fabrica dedicated to the brain, a milestone in the history of neuroscience. Many chapters are accompanied by a commentary tracking the discoveries that paved the way to our modern understanding of the brain - from the pineal gland that regulates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199383839
• ISBN13: 9780199383832
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"