Charles G. Gross is an experimental neuroscientist who specializes in brain mechanisms in vision. He is also fascinated by the history of his field. In these engaging tales describing the growth of knowledge about the brain--from the early Egyptians and Greeks to the Dark Ages and the Renaissance to the present time--he attempts to answer the question of how the discipline of neuroscience evolved into its modern incarnation through the twists and turns of history.

From Imhotep to Hubel and Wiesel: The Story of Visual Cortex Ancient Egyptian Surgery and Medicine Greek Philosopher-Scientists and the Beginning of Brain Science The Medieval Cell Doctrine of Brain Function The RebirtThe Beginning of the Modern Era of Cortical Localizationh of Brain Science The Discovery of a Visual Center in the Cerebral Cortex Leonardo Da Vinci on the Brain and Eye Emanuel Swedenborg: A Neuroscientist Before His Time The Hippocampus Minor and Man's Place in Nature: A Case Study in the Social Construction of Neuroa... Beyond Striate Cortex: How Large Portions of the Temporal and Parietal Cortex Became Visual Areas

Charles G. Gross, a neuroscientist specializing in vision and the functions of the cerebral cortex, is Professor of Psychology at Princeton University. He is the author of Brain, Vision, Memory: Tales in the History of Neuroscience (MIT Press, 1998).

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