Minds Behind the Brain: A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries

by Stanley Finger

Book Overview

Attractively illustrated with over a hundred halftones and drawings, this volume presents a series of vibrant profiles that trace the evolution of our knowledge about the brain.
Beginning almost 5000 years ago, with the ancient Egyptian study of "the marrow of the skull," Stanley Finger takes us on a fascinating journey from the classical world of Hippocrates, to the time of Descartes and the era of Broca and Ramon y Cajal, to modern researchers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019508571X
• ISBN13: 9780195085716
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.1" x 10.0"