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Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Ramon y Cajal: The Drawings of Ramon y Cajal
Larry Swanson
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Description for Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Ramon y Cajal: The Drawings of Ramon y Cajal
Hardback. Art meets science in Ramon y Cajal's remarkable drawings of the brain Num Pages: 208 pages, 90 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACV; AFF; AGB; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 268 x 287 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1334.
Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934), the father of modern neuroscience and a Nobel laureate, was an exceptional artist. He devoted his life to the anatomy of the brain, the body's most complex and mysterious organ. His superhuman feats of visualisation, based on fanatically precise techniques and countless hours at the microscope, resulted in some of the most remarkable illustrations in the history of science. Beautiful Brain presents a selection of his exquisite drawings of brain cells, brain regions and neural circuits with accessible descriptive commentary. An art book at the crossroads of art and science, Beautiful Brain describes Cajal's contributions ... Read more
Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934), the father of modern neuroscience and a Nobel laureate, was an exceptional artist. He devoted his life to the anatomy of the brain, the body's most complex and mysterious organ. His superhuman feats of visualisation, based on fanatically precise techniques and countless hours at the microscope, resulted in some of the most remarkable illustrations in the history of science. Beautiful Brain presents a selection of his exquisite drawings of brain cells, brain regions and neural circuits with accessible descriptive commentary. An art book at the crossroads of art and science, Beautiful Brain describes Cajal's contributions ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Abrams
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781419722271
SKU
V9781419722271
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99-5
About Larry Swanson
Javier DeFelipe, author of Cajal's Butterflies of the Soul (2009), is a neuroscientist at the Instituto Cajal, Madrid. Larry W. Swanson of the University of Southern California is the author of Brain Architecture (2012) and a past President of the Society for Neuroscience. Eric A. Newman, Alfonso Araque and Janet Dubinsky are distinguished neuroscientists at the University of Minnesota. ... Read more
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