It happened on FEBRUARY 16

1963

In 1963, Friedrich Dessauer died in Frankfurt. He was a physicist, philosopher, and journalist who received a Laurea Honoris Causa in theology. Both a believer and a scientist, he had a wide range of interests and published many philosophical reflections on science, among them Philosophy of Technology, The Problem of Realization (1927), and Die Teleologie in der Natur (1949).

1965

The American surgeon Claude Hitchcock performed the first organ transplant from an ape to a human. The patient lived for twelve days. It was the first case of xenotransplantation, and it put into question our understanding of the “human” nature of the body

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350th Anniversary of Nicolas Stensen (1638-1686)
Two Major Works

Nicolas Stensen’ Discourse on The Anatomy of the Brain, by Ivan Colagè

Nicolas Stensen’s Prodromus to a Dissertation concerning Solids Naturally Contained within Solids, by Ivan Colagè

Monuments and Iconography on Niels Stensen

Niels Stensen: A 17th Century Scientist with a Modern View of Brain Organization, by André Parent

The scientific revolution and Nicholas Steno’s twofold conversion, by Gian Battista Vai

Niels Stensen (1638-1686): Scientist, Neuroanatomist, and Saint, by P. Perrini, G. Lanzino, G.F. Parenti

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