A collection of objects & mdash; furniture, plates, catalogs, scientific apparatuses, paintings, engravings, sea shells, animal and mineral samples, nautical apparatuses and objects, navigational charts, and personal objects & mdash; all date to the second half of the nineteenth century and are related to the character of Jules Verne's novel.
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Andrew Huxley, whom Alan Hodgkin described as " wizard with scientific apparatus ", had just discovered the mechanism of the nerve impulse ( action potential ) transmission ( for which he and Hodgkin later won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963 ) in 1949 using his own design of voltage clamp, and was looking for an associate who could properly dissect out muscle fibres.
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The Israeli historian Yehuda Bauer wrote that Mayer " popularizes the nonsense that the Nazis saw in Marxism and Bolshevism their main enemy, and the Jews unfortunately got caught up in this; when he links the destruction of the Jews to the ups and downs of German warfare in the Soviet Union, in a book that is so cocksure of itself that it does not need a proper scientific apparatus, he is really engaging in a much more subtle form of Holocaust denial ".
