A Handsome Brain

ByCarl Zimmer
July 9, 2007

Larry Moran passes on the rules of the game: go to the Wellcome Library’s new image bank and find your favorite scientific image. Here’s my pick: the first good picture of the brain, drawn by Christopher Wren in 1664 for Thomas Willis, the first neurologist. (More on Willis and Wren here.)

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[Credit: Wellcome Institute, Creative Commons License.]

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