Man on his Nature
Originally published in 1940, and first reprinted as this second edition in 1951, this volume was written by the Nobel laureate Sir Charles Sherrington (1857–1952). To read this book is to share in wonder at the mystery of life, uncovered by a great scientist who was also a great lyrical writer. To read Sir Charles on the eye making itself (pp. 105–113) is to attend a miracle.
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Man on his Nature
Originally published in 1940, and first reprinted as this second edition in 1951, this volume was written by the Nobel laureate Sir Charles Sherrington (1857–1952). To read this book is to share in wonder at the mystery of life, uncovered by a great scientist who was also a great lyrical writer. To read Sir Charles on the eye making itself (pp. 105–113) is to attend a miracle.
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Man on his Nature

Man on his Nature

by Charles Sherrington
Man on his Nature

Man on his Nature

by Charles Sherrington

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Originally published in 1940, and first reprinted as this second edition in 1951, this volume was written by the Nobel laureate Sir Charles Sherrington (1857–1952). To read this book is to share in wonder at the mystery of life, uncovered by a great scientist who was also a great lyrical writer. To read Sir Charles on the eye making itself (pp. 105–113) is to attend a miracle.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521092036
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 01/01/1951
Series: Gifford Lectures, Edinburgh
Edition description: Revised
Pages: 307
Product dimensions: 5.47(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.83(d)

Table of Contents

1. Nature and tradition; 2. The natural and superstition; 3. Life in little; 4. The wisdom of the body; 5. Earth's reshuffling; 6. A whole presupposed of its parts; 7. The brain and its work; 8. The organ of liaison; 9. Brain collaborates with psyche; 10. Earth's alchemy; 11. Two ways of one mind; 12. Altruism; Index.
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