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Books, old and new, printers and their history, all cast their spell over Sherrington. Raised in a home filled with books — of science, history and poetry — he was addicted all his life to the printed word and to the forms in which it could be presented.
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Gibson, W.C. (1979). Books and the Man. In: Sherrington. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61864-2_8
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