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Portraits of European Neuroscientists
Nicholas Wade, Marco Piccolino & Adrian Simmons
Introduction
Portrait Gallery
Portrait Subjects
Anatomy
The measure of man
Leonardo da Vinci
Eustachio’s tables
Bartolomeo Eustachi
The renaissance of anatomy
Andreas Vesalius
Platter’s anatomy
Felix Platter
Aquapendente’s anatomy
Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente
The base of the brain
Costanzo Varolio
The brain of Laurentius
André du Laurens
De homine
René Descartes
Sylvian fissure
Franciscus de la Boë – Sylvius
Willis and his circle
Thomas Willis
Neurographia
Raymond Vieussens
Boerhaave’s Method
Hermann Boerhaave
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Period
1400s
1500s
1600s
early 1700s
late 1700s
early 1800s
late 1800s
1900s
Area
Anatomy
Brain Dysfunctions
Brain Functions
Chemistry
Medicine
Microanatomy
Philosophy
Physics
Physiology
Senses