Medical men in mathematics, astronomy and physics / by Frederick E. Brasch.

1929

pages [219]-236 : portrait

Paper given at the symposium on The History of Medicine and Civilization: the joint program of the History of Science Society, New York Academy of Medicine, and Section N of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Delivered at the New York Academy of Medicine, Dec. 28-29, 1928

Includes outlines of the life and work of Copernicus, Robert Recorde, William Gilbert, Tycho Brahe, Galileo Galilei, Johann Kepler, René Descartes, Jean and Daniel Bernoulli, Luigi Galvani, William Hyde Wollaston, Thomas Young, Hermann von Helmholtz, Cadwalader Colden, and Henry Draper

Full-page portrait of Thomas Young