Book Reviews THOMAS WILLIS ON THE BRAIN* AN ESSAY REVIEW BY
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Few events would have pleased Thomas Willis more than to see the publication of this beautiful edition of his CerebriAnatome in 1964, 300 years after its first production. This delightful memorial to Willis and his work is evidence of the sincere feeling of appreciation, widespread in doctors of the present generation in the New World, for the efforts of our medical forefathers. Here it has been concentrated into the personal dedication of its editor, Dr. Feindel, the distinguished Canadian neurosurgeon. Merely by picking up these remarkable volumes one obtains, quickly and vividly, the feel and flavour of the work of Willis and the times in which he lived. These emanate from the two vellum-covered volumes, from the texture of the specially hand-made Spanish paper, and from the watermark of the Willis crest in its pages. All provide a realistic back-drop for the facsimile production of Pordage's English translation of the work. The first volume is devoted to orientating the reader's appreciation of Willis and his works; the second consists of Pordage's translation of the work itself. A notable contribution in the first volume is the foreword by Wilder Penfield in
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.035 | 0.025 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".