Book Business' The Best We Read 2012
We asked staff and contributors to tell us about the best books they read in the last year.
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Eugene G. Schwartz, blogger, advisory board
Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain—and How It Changed the World, By Carl Zimmer (New York: Free Press, 2004)
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During the 17th century, the science of medicine was transformed in London from 13 centuries of thought centering the location of “self” in the heart (the Greek Galen), to the meticulous dissection and experimentation that led to the brain (Thomas Willis). Gifted science writer Carl Zimmer brings the period alive during the Cromwellian revolution with a fascinating narrative including in its historic cast of characters William Harvey (circulation), Christopher Wren (illustration), Robert Boyle (gases), Robert Hooke (the cell) and John Locke, the philosopher. They introduced the art of experiment and separated soul from religion as a subject for discourse.
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