Henri De Mondeville (ca 1260- ca 1320). Chirurgie. Paris: Felix Alcan, 1892. Mondeville was born in Normandy and studied medicine in Paris and Montpellier before going to Bologna. Italian surgeons were at a much higher status than in France at this time. Mondeville’s chief work, the Cyrurgia, was written between 1306-1320 and contains his basicContinue reading “February Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library | Henri de Mondeville”
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January 2016 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @ Hardin Library | Charles Estienne (1504-1564)
Charles Estienne (1504-1564). De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres. : Apud Simonem Colinaeum, 1545. Estienne was a member of the famous Estienne family of printers. He received his medical degree from the University of Paris in 1542, but had been at work on this anatomical magnum opus for many years, as some of the platesContinue reading “January 2016 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @ Hardin Library | Charles Estienne (1504-1564)”
December Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library | Jacopo Berengario Da Carpi
JACOPO BERENGARIO DA CARPI (1470-1530). Isagoge breves, perlucide ac uberime, in anatomia humani corporis. [Bologna: Impressum per Benedictum Hectoris, 1522]. Berengario was a serious student of Mondino and followed him in all matters pertaining to anatomy. He wrote Commentaria on Mondino’s Anothomia in 1521, and corrected many of Mondino’s shortcomings and added in his own observations. HeContinue reading “December Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library | Jacopo Berengario Da Carpi”
November Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library | Sir Thomas Browne
Sir THOMAS BROWNE (1605-1682). A true and full coppy of that which was most imperfectly and Surreptitiously printed before under the name of Religio Medici. [London]: Printed for Andrew Crooke, 1643. Browne was not only a noted physician, but one of the great English writers and philosophers of the Seventeenth Century. His works deal moreContinue reading “November Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library | Sir Thomas Browne”
Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library | October 2015 | Giovanni Andrea Dalla Croce
Giovanni Andrea Dalla Croce (1509?-1580). Chirugiae…libri septem. Venice: Apud Jordanum Zilettun, 1573. Not a great deal is known of Croce’s life. He was born at Venice, and was a member of the College of Surgeons in Venice. In 1560 he was mentioned as being on of the city’s most successful surgeons. Chirugiae is Croce’s majorContinue reading “Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library | October 2015 | Giovanni Andrea Dalla Croce”
August Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
MARCELLO MALPIGHI (1628-1694). De pulmonibus observationes anatomicae. In Thomas Bartholin’s De pulmonum substantia & motu diatribe, Copenhagen, 1663 Anatomist, embryologist, physiologist, and microscopist, Malpighi was instrumental in the development of embryology and histology and also a great microscopic anatomist. Malpighi made many scientific contributions, but many consider his discovery of the pulmonary circulation the most important. De pulmonibusContinue reading “August Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
June Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
GREGOR REISCH (ca. 1467-1525). Margarita philosophica. 2nd ed. [Freiburg?: Johannes Schottus, 1504]. Reisch was a Carthusian prior at Freiburg and confessor to Emperor Maximilian I, as well as assistant to Erasmus. Margarita philosophica, might be called the first modern encyclopedia. Its twelve divisions cover the trivium, the quadrivium, and the natural and moral sciences. The illustrations are fineContinue reading “June Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room : Gautier’s Anatomy
JACQUES FABIAN GAUTIER D’AGOTY (1717-1785). Anatomie de la tête. Paris: Chez le sieur Gautier, M. Duverney, Quillau, 1748. Gautier, a French printmaker, was an assistant to Le Blon and, like Ladmiral, claimed the color printing process as his own. Gautier published some ten collections of colored plates of various portions of the anatomy, and he wasContinue reading “Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room : Gautier’s Anatomy”
Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, October 2014 – Crooke’s Description of the Body of Man, 1615
HELKIAH CROOKE (1576-1635). Mikrokosmographia [Greek title transliterated]: A description of the body of man. London: Printed by William Jaggard, 1615. Crooke received his medical degree from Cambridge and was prone to be a quarrelsome individual of sometimes dubious character, especially when financial matters were involved. He had several clashes with London’s College of Physicians over questions ofContinue reading “Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, October 2014 – Crooke’s Description of the Body of Man, 1615”
Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room – Jean Pecquet
At the beginning of the 17th century, it was widely believed that food was converted into blood as it passed through the digestive system. The blood was then carried to the liver where it was imbued with natural spirits and passed on to the heart for distribution through the body. Since only the blood vesselsContinue reading “Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room – Jean Pecquet”