Thomae Bartholini Casp. F. Anatomia, ex Caspari Bartholini parentis institutionibus, omniumque recentiorum et propriis observationibus. Tertium ad san

Thomae Bartholini Casp. F. Anatomia, ex Caspari Bartholini parentis institutionibus, omniumque recentiorum et propriis observationibus. Tertium ad sanguinis circulationem reformata. Cum iconibus novis accuratissimis. Accessit huic postremae editioni Th. Bartholini appendix de lacteis thoracicis et vasis lymphaticis.

Author	Thomas Bartholin
Publisher	Hagae-Comitis: ex typographia Adriani Vlacq, 1655
Edition
Weight	700 gram
CF	Cf BMN 1-80; Sallander 714 (only the edition of 1660); Lindeboom(Bibl. Hist. Dutch med, 1975): 1863*, 1864.
Keywords	Anatomy, Anatomie, Blood circulation, Harvey, lymphatic system, Walaeus, Franciscus de le Bo� Sylvius, Leiden, Bartholinus, History of Medicine
Booknumber	21438
Category's	Old & Rare (17th Century) Exact Sciences (Medicine)
8vo. Pp. (16), 592, (13). Contemporary overlapping vellum. Complete with the engraved frontispiece, the engraved portrait of the author, 66 full-page engravings in the text and all 7 folding engraved plates outside of text. Collation (complete): *8 A-2P8 (2P8 blank). Fingerprint identical to STCN 165508 The first Latin edition of this work was published in 1651 and the first Dutch edition in 1653, both by Hackius from Leiden. So this is the 3d � enlarged - edition, but nevertheless the rarest of the three. The Danish physician Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680) was also a mathematician and theologian and the son of Casper Bartholin the Elder (1585 � 1629), likewise a famous physician. He was appointed by King Christian V as his private physician in 1670. He enlarged, revised and illustrated his father�s textbook on anatomy, this work becoming the standard reference work on that subject. The son is best known for his discovery of the human lymphatic system, that he first described in 1652, although that priority is disputed. The work is divided into several sections. First rhere are 4 books: 1. the internal and external abdomen (31 plates). 2, the internal and external thorax (9 plates). 3. Head and central nervous system (11 plates). Then follow 4 �libelli�: 1, the venous system (5 pates & 1 folding). 2, the arterial system (1 fold. plate). 3, the peripheral nervous system (2 plates & 1 fold.). 4. The osseous system (5 plates). Bartholin included in this revised edition of Anatomia two letters (�Epistolae duae de Motu chyli et sanguinis� � accompanied by 3 plates) on the relation between the lymphatic system and the thoracic duct. These letters were sent to him by one of his his teachers, the Dutch physician Johannes Walaeus (1604 � 1649), the son of the famous Calvinist theologian Antonius Walaeus (1573 � 1639), one of the translators of the first Dutch States Bible. Johannes Walaeus became professor at the Leiden University in 1632 and became acquainted with Franciscus de le Bo� Sylvius (1614 � 1672), a defender of William Harvey�s theory of the systemic blood-circulation. After all, Harvey had published his treatise only in 1628. After all, Harvey had published his treatise �De Motu Cordis�only in 1628. After these letters an appendix on the thoracic duct and the lymphatic system (1 fold. plate) is added, as well as the index. The folding rectangular plates of the whole body mounted. Curiously, plates 4 � 7 of the first book have been mounted on the (probably wrong) engravings of those pages, as the figure-explanations on the opposite side are clearly relevant to the new, mounted engraving. Vellum slightly soiled. Otherwise a very good copy with fine engravings. Very rare, only 4 copies in the Netherlands and only 3 in Germany.
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