Brain Renaissance

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Catani and Sandrone have produced a remarkable compilation of the history of neuroscience from Vesalius to the present day. The book highlights the complexity and wonder of the human body, specifically the brain and its functions. At the same time, the book honors the first physicians to observe and explore the human body like Vesalius. Catani and Sandrone's work is relevant both to students of medicine, and to those interested in Renaissance studies, medicine, and history. * Angela P. Pacheco, Purdue University. The British Society for Literature and Science * [This book is] a convincing attempt to use the fundamental discoveries of Andreas Vesalius as a key to start and develop multiple explorations of the brain. . . To have used an anatomist of five centuries ago as a guide through centuries of research on the brain is an original and somehow strange challenge. The fascination of Brain Renaissance, tells us that the goal was fully achieved. * Paolo Mazzarello, Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, and Historical Museum, Strada Nuova, Italy, in Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences XXX (2015) * This book is a compact and historically important contribution of interest to historians of science, especially biology. . . I feel it is even more valuable for those teaching neuroscience. . . [It helps] put our modern conceits as part of a long journey to understand mind and behaviour. * Gordon M. Burghardt, Professor in the departments of Psychology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at The University of Tennessee, in PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 61, No. 2, January 2016 * In Brain Renaissance, neuroscientists Marco Catani and Stefano Sandrone present a translation from the Latin of the Fabricas last volume, which focuses on the brain..... Brain Renaissance is not the only English translation, but it is the only one available at a price that individuals might afford. Accompanying texts by Catani and Sandrone place the work in its historical and scientific context. * Alison Abbott, Nature *