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Portraits of European Neuroscientists
Nicholas Wade, Marco Piccolino & Adrian Simmons
Introduction
Portrait Gallery
Portrait Subjects
Senses
Natural magician
Giambattista della Porta
Ophthalmologist
Georg Bartisch
The brain of Laurentius
André du Laurens
Inductive science
Francis Bacon
Galileo’s vision
Galileo Galilei
Inverted retinal image
Johannes Kepler
Scheiner’s eye
Christoph Scheiner
Counting mustard seeds
Benito Daza de Valdés
De homine
René Descartes
De Lumine
Franciscus Grimaldi
Sceptical chymist
Robert Boyle
Light wave theorist
Christiaan Huygens
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Period
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1500s
1600s
early 1700s
late 1700s
early 1800s
late 1800s
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Area
Anatomy
Brain Dysfunctions
Brain Functions
Chemistry
Medicine
Microanatomy
Philosophy
Physics
Physiology
Senses