Fundamentals Of Protein Structure And Function (Springer, 2007)(1).pdf

Fundamentals of Protein
Structure and Function
Fundamentals of Protein
Structure and Function
Engelbert Buxbaum
Portsmouth, Dominica
Engelbert Buxbaum
Department of Biochemistry
Ross University School of Medicine
Box 266, Portsmouth Campus, Roseau
Commonwealth of Dominica (West Indies)
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Preface
... to describe the things that are, as they are.
(Friedrich II. (1164–1250): On the Art to Hunt with Birds)
In those simple words described Friedrich, emperor of the Holy Roman
Empire of German Nation, around 1240 the job of a scientist. He was an avid
hunter who particularly loved hunting with birds of prey. He realised that to
really enjoy that sport one had to know as much as possible about animals,
a knowledge that can be derived only by careful, unbiased observation. Thus
he broke with the antique tradition of mixing observation with philosophy,
religion and superstition, a