The ‘worm’ in our brain. An anatomical, historical, and philological study on the vermis cerebelli

@article{Steinsiepe2023TheI,
  title={The ‘worm’ in our brain. An anatomical, historical, and philological study on the vermis cerebelli},
  author={K F Steinsiepe},
  journal={Journal of the History of the Neurosciences},
  year={2023},
  volume={32},
  pages={265 - 300},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:255470624}
}
The story of the “worm’s” transformation from Galen to Vesalius and beyond is told and the contributions of post-Galenic natural philosophers and pre-Vesalian anatomists to this development are discussed.
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