The_Invention_of_Surgery
Gutenberg’s family was involved with the striking of imperial coins in the local mint, and he grew up acquainted with the tools ...
concluded—but by inventing a dramatically improved way of rapidly crafting the reusable molds. Gutenberg was a driven capitalist ...
illiterate^16 —was born in Mecca, the village that already was a center of religious observation. Today, it is the focal point t ...
formerly Byzantine lands that they now ruled they began to absorb Greek science. Some Greek learning also came from Persia, whos ...
The House of Wisdom, founded by the caliph al-Mamun, became the world’s center of learning. Whereas Alexandria had been the prev ...
17th century.^25 “Lecturing in 1913, Sir William Osler described Avicenna as ‘the author of the most famous medical textbook eve ...
trove of Arabic translations of classical Greek works, Islamic medical tomes, advanced international medical training, and his f ...
methodically, which had a sound foundation in philosophy and the natural order.”^31 The combined work of Constantine and the tra ...
THREE Vesalius and De Humani Corporis Fabrica I stare at the bookshelf of my parents’ library, trying to decide which volume of ...
The third plastic page reveals lungs, heart, large blood vessels, pancreas, and kidneys. I flip back and forth, memorizing the n ...
technical preconditions be met: the existence of reliable methods of communication, a common body of expert knowledge, and an ac ...
its treasures, and carried them back to the Italian peninsula. These included works of art, sculptures, precious metals, and anc ...
created an extraordinary clear type of glass. Struck by its resemblance to the clearest rock crystals of quartz, Barovier called ...
manuscripts flowing into Italy—and the movable type printing press was invented. Conventional wisdom holds that individualism wa ...
The renewed interest in medical learning in the Italian Peninsula, first in Salerno, and later in Bologna and Padua, inspired yo ...
overwhelmed by earlier authorities, either Galenic or Moslem [sic]”^17 and put considerable trust in his own vision of the human ...
Paris for three years, but was forced to leave before being granted a medical degree, as we shall see. Prior to the arrival of A ...
surgeons and barbers, and were critical in establishing membership rules and standards. The craft of barber-surgery would have r ...
visit them. Beyond my hopes I found those on whom I had put the digestive dressing feeling little pain from their wounds which w ...
Paris. He quickly installed himself in the medical school at Louvain (outside Brussels), and was soon scouting the locale for bo ...
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