Our proud alumnus Rebecca Barchas, MD (MED ‘68), who endowed the professorship held by Andrew Pieper, recently shared with me her parent’s interest in the history of science and medicine including an extensive book collection and their donation of said collection to the Green Library of Stanford University.
When I had a chance to visit that remarkable collection, I held (and photographed) the works of Galileo, Newton, Darwin and Harvey. There were also science books from the 16th to18th centuries from China, Egypt and India.