The Wine-Dark Sea Within

    

“[The] account of the circulation of the blood took over two millennia to develop…  In The Wine-Dark Sea Within, this process becomes a saga of heroism, villainy and high intellectual adventure, told with great eloquence and verve by Dhun Sethna.”

“An impressive story; devotees of medical history will have plenty to enjoy.”

“[An] intriguing work of scientific history and appreciation of the arduous path to cardiac discovery.”

“… by presenting the story of an idea that we take for granted, but that had such a complex road, in an engaging and readable way, he has done a service to both intellectual historians of medicine and Classics and to more popular audiences…”

The Wine-Dark Sea Within is an engrossing look at mankind’s understanding of blood that offers even the most jaded expert a restorative transfusion of delightful history.

The discovery of how blood circulates in the human body was a seminal scientific event. The Wine-Dark Sea Within presents an engaging and incredibly comprehensive history of this paradigm-shifting breakthrough.

At once a sweeping history of our love affair with the ‘sacred fluid’ and an engaging biography of the man who forever changed our understanding of its circulation, The Wine-Dark Sea Within offers an adventurous look at the scientific revolution of blood. In its rapid pace and its varied characters, it might be compared to Richard Holmes’s Age of Wonder: encyclopedic but never tarrying too long on the journey from antiquity to the dawn of Enlightenment science.

A well-researched and masterful expose. . . . A real tour de force.