Book Review: Recovery Room Practice

Book Review: Speechless. My Recovery from Stroke

“When I read a new word-that is one I knew before the strokeI knew what it meant intuitively. But although the new word was not lost it was not available to me. Concepts... would fade away like moonshine the moment I tried to pin them down with speech. It was a sensation so fleeting that I hardly knew it was there. The lack of speech ate right into my dealings with the outside world. It made me...

Book Review Elizabethan London and Scientific Practice

The jewel house is a nuanced analysis of the community of gardeners, instrument makers, engineers, alchemists and mathematics teachers in Elizabethan London whose empirical practices, Harkness argues, ‘set the stage for the Scientific Revolution’ via the practice of what she terms vernacular ‘science’. Although her employment of the term ‘science’ may seem an anachronism, she demonstrates that ...

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