Through France with Berzelius

There are 165 years between Jöns Jacob Berzelius'' and Carl Gustaf Bernhard''s excursions through the Massif Central in France. In spite of their circumstantial differences, the similarities between the two men of letters is striking. While Berzelius is renowned as one of the founders of modern chemistry and mineralogy, the bulk of Bernhard''s achievement has been in the field of neurophysiology--...