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'All manner of industry and ingenuity': A bio-bibliography of Thomas Willis 1621 - 1675 - Hardcover
'All manner of ingenuity and industry' (Hardcover)
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Condition: new. Hardcover. This book celebrates the quatercentenary of the birth of Thomas Willis on 27 January 1621. As a physician in Oxford, Willis's work in the 1650s provides an example of rural medical practice in early modern England.
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As a member of the Oxford Philosophical Club that met from the 1640s, he was central to the move from classical scholasticism to accounts of anatomy and physiology based on observation and experiment. As Sedleian professor of natural philosophy in Oxford,the surviving records of his lectures from the 1660s provide an example of pedagogy in medicine at that time.
And, after moving to London in 1667, Willis continued to interact with a community of