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    Ladders: The History and Science of Elevation
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    Ladders: The History and Science of Elevation

    By Robert D. Cohen

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    Ladders is about how people throughout the ages have made their way to the top, by fair means or foul. The book starts with a description of the physical aspects of ladders (including staircases, which, for the purposes of Ladders, are regarded as ways of getting to the top. Included is a discussion of gravity, which opposes one’s ascent). It covers Isaac Newton dropping apples and working out a Law of Gravitation from his observations, and the friendly rivalry between Newton and Robert Hooke (who was interested in the same topic), as well as ladders in stockings, the history of the superstition that walking under a ladder brings bad luck, ladders in art, including representations of Jacob’s Ladder (from the Book of Genesis to the statue of a man carrying a ladder outside Edgware Road Underground Station), and the origins of the saying ‘honi soit qui mal y pense’. Robert is the author of a series of books describing the history, science, medicine, artistic representation and cuisine of various body parts which includes; Skin and Bones, Man and the Liver, Splancreas and other Offal, A Muscle Odyssey and Nephrosapiens – A History of Man’s Thinking about the Kidney. Ladders will appeal to those interested in history, science and medical books.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTroubador Publishing Ltd
    Release dateApr 28, 2015
    ISBN9781784625610
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    Ladders: The History and Science of Elevation
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    Robert D. Cohen

    Robert D. Cohen was Professor of Medicine at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry until retirement in 1999. He was Chairman of Council of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and instrumental in its merger with the Cancer Research Campaign to form Cancer Research UK. He is a founder member of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a previous Vice-President and Senior Censor of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Robert was awarded a CBE in 1997.

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