by Santiago Ramón y Cajal · Espasa-Calpe · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423902149
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«El mundo visto a los ochenta años: impresiones de un arteriosclerótico» is the essay by Santiago Ramón y Cajal published by Espasa-Calpe in paperback.
The scientist and Nobel laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal writes at eighty a reflection on old age, the passage of time and accumulated experience. The book is a personal meditation in which physical decline coexists with an intellectual curiosity that remains active.
This essay by Santiago Ramón y Cajal has 212 pages and appears in the Austral Collection as number 214; the cover indicates the «novena edición». The text is in Spanish.
It is a work for readers of memoirs and essays interested in Santiago Ramón y Cajal and in reflection on aging.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specialising in neuroanatomy, and the central nervous system. He and Camillo Golgi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906. Ramón y Cajal was the first Spaniard to win a scientific Nobel Prize. His original investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain made him a pioneer of modern neuroscience.
