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First edition. Small quarto. 335pp. Illustrated, mostly in black and white. Owner stamp and signature of a noted American psychologist on the front fly and binding heavily cocked, otherwise close to fine with the margins faintly toned, in a lightly sunned and lightly soiled, very good dust jacket with a short tear at the top of the upper flap fold. John C. Eccles was a 1963 Nobel laureate. Seller Inventory # 555427
Title: The Cerebellum as a Neuronal Machine
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc, New York
Publication Date: 1967
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller: Row By Row Bookshop, Sugar Grove, NC, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A Good copy (owner's name) in blue cloth. Tanning to the outer edges of the text block, and to the endpapers. The binding is sound, the text is clean/unmarked, and not ex-library. No dust jacket. Book. Seller Inventory # 062189
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. (New York: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc, 1967). Hardcover. First US Edition. Small quarto. Publisher's blue boards with white lettering to the front board and spine. 335 pp. Illustrated, mostly in black and white. A neat former owner's name to the front free end-paper and a crease to the bottom right-hand corner of the title page otherwise a bright and clean near fine copy. The VG cream dustwrapper is complete with a lightly-browned spine and several, totally unnecessary, historic tape reinforcements to the extremities on the verso. John C. Eccles was a 1963 Nobel laureate who shared the Nobel Prize in 1963 with Alan L. Hodgkin and Andrew F. Huxley "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane." Shortly after John Eccles completed his studies of synaptic inhibition in the spinal cord, for which he was awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in physiology/medicine, he opened another chapter of neuroscience with his work on the cerebellum. From 1963 to 1967, Eccles and his colleagues in Canberra successfully dissected the complex neuronal circuitry in the cerebellar cortex. In the 1967 monograph, "The Cerebellum as a Neuronal Machine", he, in collaboration with Masao Ito and Janos Szentágothai, presented blue-print-like wiring diagrams of the cerebellar neuronal circuitry. These stimulated worldwide discussions and experimentation on the potential operational mechanisms of the circuitry and spurred theoreticians to develop relevant network models of the machine-like function of the cerebellum. Further photographs available upon request. Seller Inventory # 355490725012