Oddbean new post about login | logout @8599d6ab Claude Bernard was very pioneering. Georges Canguilhem has a great text centrally featuring Bernard which is called "Experimentation in animal biology" (can be found in the book of collected Canguilhem texts 'Knowledge of Life'). Absolutely worth adding to your certainly already very long reading list! 🙂
@359dd83b Thanks! Additions are always welcome. I never expected I would become that type of person who loves to dive into these really old books, but I'm that person. Today it was Walter Cannon's 1932 book Wisdom of the Body (where he coined the term "Homeostasis"). The opening paragraph is poetry for us all. (The internet archive is feeding my new obsession.) https://neuromatch.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/024/299/226/576/125/original/035a051d7669ec4b.png
