Man on his Nature

A volume by the great scientist, writer and Nobel laureate Sir Charles Sherrington (1857–1952).

Charles Sherrington (Author)

9780521092036, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 January 1951

307 pages
21.6 x 13.9 x 2.1 cm, 0.44 kg

Originally published in 1940, and first reprinted as this second edition in 1951, this volume was written by the Nobel laureate Sir Charles Sherrington (1857–1952). To read this book is to share in wonder at the mystery of life, uncovered by a great scientist who was also a great lyrical writer. To read Sir Charles on the eye making itself (pp. 105–113) is to attend a miracle.

1. Nature and tradition
2. The natural and superstition
3. Life in little
4. The wisdom of the body
5. Earth's reshuffling
6. A whole presupposed of its parts
7. The brain and its work
8. The organ of liaison
9. Brain collaborates with psyche
10. Earth's alchemy
11. Two ways of one mind
12. Altruism
Index.

Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]