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Professor Zoltán Molnár talks to author and historian Iain Pears to better understand "a time and place of great intellectual, religious, scientific and political ferment" in which Thomas Willis lived and worked.

Front cover of An Instance of the Fingerpost with illustrations of a dove, skull and open book, black and white drawing of Richard Lower taking a blood transfusion, and a portrait photo of Iain Pears
An Instance of the Fingerpost cover, Willis's colleague Richard Lower performing a blood transfusion, and Iain Pears