Stories
- Book extract
The shape of thought
Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s description of the moment in 1887 when he saw a brain cell for the first time never fails to move neuroscientist Richard Wingate to tears. Here he captures that enduring sense of wonder.
- Article
The enduring myth of the mad genius
There’s a fine line to tread between creativity and psychosis.
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Illness and the influence of the stars
Could alien germs from space have caused major pandemics across the world? Taras Young investigates the ideas of a few unconventional scientists who believe this to be the case.
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Louis Wain’s cryptic cats
Once famous for his quirky cat illustrations, today Louis Wain is often portrayed as a ‘psychotic’ artist whose illness can be mapped out through his drawings. Here Bryony Benge-Abbott takes a more rounded view.
Catalogue
- Books
Patterns of trade in the Rhineland / by Norman J.G. Pounds.
Pounds, Norman J. G.Date: 1953- Books
Diffraction patterns in nineteenth-century astronomy and twentieth-century X-ray crystallography / by Otto C. Glaser and Dorothy Wrinch.
Glaser, Otto C.Date: 1953- Books
Patterns of psychological thought : readings in historical and contemporary texts / [compiled by] James R. Averill.
Date: [1976], ©1976- Books
Divided legacy : a history of the schism in medical thought / Harris L. Coulter.
Coulter, Harris L. (Harris Livermore), 1932-Date: 1973-1994
- Pictures
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A young woman is sitting in a chair with a tapestry in a frame in front of her, trying to be distracted from the thought of her forced marriage. Engraving by W.H. Simmons, 1840, after J.H. Nixon.
Nixon, James Henry, approximately 1808-Date: 1840Reference: 29994i