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A love of ‘words as words’: metaphor, analogy and the brain in the work of Thomas Willis (1621 - 1675)
O'Neal, Rebecca (Queen Mary University of London, 2017-09-27)Thomas Willis is commonly used as a touchstone for the modern brain sciences: his Cerebri anatome (1664) is celebrated as having placed the brain on its ‘modern footing,’ while Willis is referred to as the ‘founding ...