I Awaken to Glory Historical and methods of the Cimento

and methods of the Cimento and its relationship to other early modern academies

This technique could serve as a powerful tool for the historiography of twentieth-century sciences in which one cannot reasonably deal with the ‘content’ of the science

” — Economic History Review

It may also prove a fitting capstone  to the career of a scholar whose contributions to the history of science and medicine are legion…Recommended

I Awaken to Glory Historical and methods of the CimentoWolfe, Richard J., and Leonard F. Menczer, eds., 1994, xvii + 442pp. Horace Wells has come to be viewed over the years as an enigmatic figure. Owing to his death by suicide in early 1848, and his inability to participate in the debate that soon erupted over credit for the discovery of anesthesia, the literature on him is confused, fragmentary, and incomplete. While he is considered by some to have been the most benevolent and ethically correct