Auteur: Peter Millard

Roger North was an English writer, lawyer, and polymath. In this autobiography, he wanders the intellectual, political, and cultural fields of Restoration England, mapping the state of his country an …

This volume contains two important works by Roger North (1651?-1734): his General Preface and Life of Dr John North. The General Preface is a remarkable discussion of the theory of life writing, in w …

Arguably medicine is either an arts-based science or a science-based art. In medieval times, clinical decisions were based on simple measures, such as the temperature of the body, the rhythm of the p …