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Gangemi Editore. New. 2021. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8849238460 . New unused red pictorial hardback first edition. 351 pages, unmarked ; DD0522 ST2; 11.8 X 8.5 X 1.3 inches; 351 pages .

Roma: Gangemi Editore, 2021. English Text. Roma, 2021; bound, pp. 356, ill., cm 22x30,5. (Le Ragioni dell'Uomo). In the 18th century, often referred to as the "century of revolutions", we witnessed an extraordinary development of science, which began with the formulation of Newton's principles which are still largely at the basis of our worldview today. The natural sciences were reorganised, with the proposal of zoological and botanical taxonomies, and medicine began to become more scientific with the formulation of great interpretative systems, the birth of a chemistry definitively separate from alchemy, the first research on electrical and physiological phenomena, the innovative interpretation of the nature of disease processes and the characterisation of many specific diseases. However, it was in the 19th century that medicine definitively evolved into science and technology with the invention of the stethoscope, the discovery of anaesthesia, antisepsis and asepsis, vaccines… Read More