Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters Hardcover 271(20):1623–1624

271(20):1623–1624

and Chapter 10 outlines his achievements in optics

An instrument can change the world and compel us to rethink our place in the universe

showing the complex interplay of theory

one might feel ‘a certain unease at the very notion of tracing the migration of something as evanescent as an idea

Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters Hardcover 271(20):1623–1624Podolsky, Scott H., and Charles S. Bryan, eds., 288pp., illus. Oliver Wendell Holmes (18091894) spent parts of the nineteenth century as Americas best known physician and best selling author. Sir William Osler praised him as the most successful combination which the world has ever seen, of the physician and man of letters. Henry James, Sr., called him intellectually the most alive man I ever knew. Today, he is remembered as a physician for his