William Harvey..
In pictorial laminated stiff card wrappers. Some wear to extremities and a little spotting of fore edge; otherwise a very good copy.
£10.00
Publisher
The Scientific Book Guild. Beaverbrook Newspapers Limited.,
Place
London
Date
1961
Synopsis
His life and times: his discoveries: his methods. foreword by sir zachary cope.
Item Description
8vo. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. 271 pp.
Illustrations
Illustrated by 18 plates, including portrait frontispiece, by 14 text figures, including maps, facsimiles and diagrams and by vignette.
Notes
Reprint of a life of Harvey, with chapters on his connections with Folkestone and Canterbury. The author of this biography, Dr Louis Chauvois (1881-1972), was a distinguished French physician and medical historian. Hence it includes a scholarly approach in surveying Harvey's medical works. A French edition was simultaneously published with the first English one of 1957.
[Stock No. 25084]
Subjects
17th Century • Biography • Harvey • Illustrated • Kent • Medicine