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Jan Evangelista Purkyne: Czech Scientist and Patriot, 1787-1869

by Henry J. John. 96 pgs.

Contributors:

   Henry J. John

Publisher:

   American Philosophical Society

Place of Publication:

  Philadelphia  

Publication Year:

  1959

Subjects:

Purkyn*E, Jan Evangelista,--1787-1869

	CONTENTS
I.	Purkyně's Ancestry and his Early Years	1
II.	Purkyně Enters the Piarist Order	4
III.	Purkyně Leaves the Piarist Order	6
IV.	Purkyně Goes to Prague and Enters the Department of Philosophy	9
V.	Purkyně Studies Medicine in Prague	11
VI.	Goethe and Purkyně	18
VII.	Purkyně Comes to Breslau as Professor of Physiology	21
VIII.	Purkyně Returns to Prague as Professor of Physiology	35
IX.	Purkyně's Last Days and his Funeral	51
	Appendices. Translations of Articles by and about Purkyně :
	A. Physiological Examination of the Organ of Vision and the Integumentary System	54
	B. Concerning the External Physiological Examination of the Integumentary System. Translated by Harold Cummills and Rebecca Wright Kennedy	63
C.	Concerning the Organization of Human Teeth	69
D.	Experiments on Hearing	75
	E. Purkyně's Contribution to Cinematography. By Docent Jindřich Brichta	80
	F. Introduction to the Formation of the Ego, in the Body of the Hen. By George W. Bartelmez	82
	Bibliography	84

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