THE EVOLUTIONARY THEORIES OF DR J. C. WILLIS*

Dr. C. J. C. Earl

NEUROwords Dr. Thomas Willis' famous eponym: the circle of Willis.

Thomas Willis is considered one of the greatest neuroanatomists of all time. His name is usually associated with the circle of Willis, an anastomotic circle at the base of the brain, but his work also formed the foundation of basic neuroanatomical description and nomenclature, and comparative neuroanatomy. He was born on 27 January 1621 at Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, England, the son of a farmer...

Dr C. J. Sangwin: Publications

Theses and books [1] C. J. Sangwin. Discrete dynamical systems and Cantor sets in one dimension. MSc, University of Bath, 1996. [2] C. J. Sangwin. Uncertain dynamical systems and nonlinear adaptive control. PhD, University of Bath, 2000. [3] C. J. Budd and C. J. Sangwin. Mathematics Galore! Discovery classes, workshops and team projects in mathematics and its applications. Oxford University Pre...

Some letters of Dr. Thomas Willis (1621-1675).

OCCASIONALLY DOCTORS' letters may be of more interest to medical historians than their published writings. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the elegance of a physician's literary style was often more highly regarded than the astuteness of his clinical observations or the efficacy of his treatment. Medical books tended to be inflated with dubious hypotheses and the few worthwhile reme...

Dr J. W. Ballantyne