Felix Platter
© Hans Bock 1584
Felix Platter (1536– 1614) was a Swiss anatomist and professor of medicine and a pioneer in the field that would become neuroscience.
© Hans Bock 1584
Felix Platter (1536– 1614) was a Swiss anatomist and professor of medicine and a pioneer in the field that would become neuroscience.
Felix Platter
Foreword by Stephen Greenblatt
Translated and introduced by Seán Jennett
“Like the diary of Samuel Pepys or the memoirs of François-René de Chateaubriand, Beloved Son Felix [is] an invaluable and entertaining firsthand exploration of a bygone era . . . We are allowed a rare glimpse into the street-level experiences of a common Renaissance man.” —Michael Patrick Brady, The Wall Street Journal
The wildly vivid, rare, and revealing journals of a sixteenth-century medical student.