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This cross-disciplinary approach also offers fresh insights into the major unsolved challenge of our age- the origin of self-awareness

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Mechanism, Experiment, Disease Nigel Priestley Betty Craven is the epitomeA leading early modern anatomist and physician, Marcello Malpighi often compared himself to that period's other great mind Galileo. Domenico Bertoloni Meli here explores Malpighi's work and places it in the context of seventeenthcentury intellectual life. Malpighi's interests were wide and varied. As a professor at the University of Bologna, he confirmed William Harvey's theory of the circulation of blood; published groundbreaking studies of human