Cherry Lewis
Author
Language
English
Description
A colorful and absorbing portrait of James Parkinson and the turbulent, intellectually vibrant world of Georgian London.
Parkinson's disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 60,000 new cases each year in the United States alone, yet few know anything about the man the disease is named after. In 1817-two hundred years ago-James Parkinson (1755—1824) defined this mysterious ailment so precisely that we still diagnose Parkinson's...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A colorful and absorbing portrait of James Parkinson -- after whom Parkinson's disease is named -- and the turbulent, intellectually vibrant world of Georgian London. Author Cherry Lewis examines Parkinson's three seemingly disparate passions: medicine, politics, and fossils. As a political radical, Parkinson was interrogated over a plot to kill King George III, putting himself in danger of being exiled. He helped Edward Jenner set up smallpox vaccination...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
How old is the Earth? At the end of the 19th century, geologists, biologists, physicists and astronomers were all looking for a clock that would provide an answer to this greatest Time question of all. Here is the story of one man's vision in developing a geological time scale that would finally lead to an accurate date for the Age of the Earth.