The_Invention_of_Surgery
method. It would not be long until Newton was incorporating Descartes’s techniques and building upon his theories. As Newton was ...
explains their similar “apparent size” in the sky and the mathematical prospect of complete solar eclipse. Both orbs occupy one- ...
contemplation,”^25 with the glaring exception of a young man in Woolsthorpe. Whether in Woolsthorpe, Cambridge, or later, London ...
light through a prism, diffracting the sunlight into a rainbow of colors splashing onto a distant wall. In a stroke of genius, N ...
understand, if he concentrated with enough gusto. He later concluded, that during the “plague years of 1665–1666 ... I was in th ...
full bloom, and characters like Newton were the focus of debate in the coffeehouses and homes of the great city. Isaac Newton pu ...
another unlikely character would arrive in London to become the world’s first scientific surgeon. Although the Royal Society had ...
Prophecy fulfilled. The Royal Society’s fellows have split the atom, discovered hydrogen, the double helix, and the electron. Th ...
FIVE Harvey and Hunter “When I was a little boy ... I wanted to know about the clouds and the grasses, why the leaves change col ...
In my first few days, I was completely overwhelmed and terrified. It was instantly obvious to my fellow interns and myself that ...
During a central line change a couple days ago, one of Travis’s nurses predicted to me that he wasn’t going to make it, and I’m ...
this surreal moment between boy and dog, and Honey spontaneously yelps a plaintive bark, and assumes his posture on his haunches ...
functioned and certainly no understanding of individual organ function. At the dawn of the 17th century, there was still not a s ...
The man who would rise to become physician extraordinary to the King of England originated as a Kentish boy who was endlessly cu ...
must go. Frustrated, I walk across the street to the Caffé Pedrocchi, one of the oldest coffee shops in Europe, to plot my next ...
Francesca solemnly turns my way, and with a warm smile, asks if I’m ready to visit the anatomy theater: I eagerly say yes. Leavi ...
ridiculously wrong. From Greek and Roman times all the way to the early Renaissance, no researcher could reliably and precisely ...
changing its color from dark purple to scarlet. Additionally, blood was said to have naturally flowed from one side of the heart ...
brandishing a sixteen-inch silver-tipped whalebone wand that he used as a pointer during presentations. His elegant attire of “b ...
After draining the fresh blood in the great vessels of the chest, Harvey found himself face-to-face with the dead man’s heart an ...
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