Illustration of the pineal gland from a book by Rene Descartes entitled De Homine,published after his death in 1662. The book is regarded as the first textbook of physiology. Descartes believed that the pineal gland,marked H in this picture,was the seat of the soul. A French philosopher and mathematician,Descartes was born in 1596 and died,in Sweden in 1650 | |
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