Herbert Gasser was born in Platteville, Wisconsin, on July 5, 1888. His mother, Jane Griswold, who descended from an early Connecticut family, was a teacher trained in Wisconsin's first State Normal School in Platteville. Gasser's father, Herman, was...

During a life devoted to the medical sciences, Herbert Spencer Gasser mastered the fields of physiology, electronics, optics, photography, applied mathematics, and pharmacology. His studies with Joseph Erlanger on nerve properties, using new techniques...

MODERNISM IN typography owes much to Jan Tschichold, whose doctrine of asymmetric layout and sanserif type aimed to do for printed matter what the Bauhaus had done for design generally. Tschichold's work was first introduced to Britain in the Penrose Annual, printed and published...

In 1978, Liberty Fund published nineteenth-century intellectual giant Herbert Spencer's Principles of Ethics in two volumes, with an introduction by Tibor R. Machan. Spencer's magnificent tome is full of wisdom and will be read with profit for generations. Machan's brief introduction is more questionable....