The Renaissance Lives series from Reaktion Books and the University of Chicago offers a very interesting selection of relatively brief overviews of the lives and works of a number of notable artists, poets, and thinkers from that period, including five volumes that are certain to be of interest to enthusiasts of the history of science.
Let’s face it – the popular understanding of the cognitive abilities of reptiles isn’t particularly complimentary. And for that matter, even some areas of the scientific world have borrowed the name to represent aspects of biology that are considered primitive or base – the “reptilian brain,” for example. However…