{"id":5628,"date":"2016-10-13T15:46:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T15:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/?p=6766"},"modified":"2016-10-13T15:46:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T15:46:40","slug":"vieussens-neurographia-universalis-october-2016-notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2016\/10\/13\/vieussens-neurographia-universalis-october-2016-notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Vieussens, Neurographia Universalis | October 2016 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2016\/10\/Brain_transverse_section_of_cerebral_hemisphere__Wellcome_L0002346-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"brain_transverse_section_of_cerebral_hemisphere__wellcome_l0002346\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2016\/10\/Brain_transverse_section_of_cerebral_hemisphere__Wellcome_L0002346-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2016\/10\/Brain_transverse_section_of_cerebral_hemisphere__Wellcome_L0002346-36x36.jpg 36w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2016\/10\/Brain_transverse_section_of_cerebral_hemisphere__Wellcome_L0002346-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>RAYMOND VIEUSSENS (1641-1715?). Neurographia universalis. Lyons: Apud Joannem Certe, 1685<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6767\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2016\/10\/Raymond_Vieussens_2_jpeg-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"picture of Raymond Vieussens\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2016\/10\/Raymond_Vieussens_2_jpeg-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2016\/10\/Raymond_Vieussens_2_jpeg.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The son of a French army officer, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raymond_Vieussens\">Vieussens<\/a> provided his own support, studying philosophy at Rhodez and medicine at Montpellier. As physician to the hospital of Saint Eloy in Montpellier,performed over five hundred postmortem examinations.\u00a0 He made a\u00a0number of anatomical discoveries during these exams.<\/p>\n<p>This well-illustrated compendium of the anatomy of the nervous system is based on these examinations and provides the most complete description of the brain and spinal cord to appear during the seventeenth century.<\/p>\n<p>Vieussens was one of the first anatomists to dissect out the internal capsule, corona radiata, cerebral peduncles, and the pyramidal fasiculi of the pons. The twenty-two folding copperplates, printed on fine, thin paper, are in excellent condition in this copy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2016\/10\/Brain_transverse_section_of_cerebral_hemisphere__Wellcome_L0002346-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"brain_transverse_section_of_cerebral_hemisphere__wellcome_l0002346\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2016\/10\/Brain_transverse_section_of_cerebral_hemisphere__Wellcome_L0002346-212x300.jpg 212w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2016\/10\/Brain_transverse_section_of_cerebral_hemisphere__Wellcome_L0002346.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/>You may view this book in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/rbr\/\" >John Martin Rare Book Room, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Make a gift to the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givetoiowa.org\/GiveToIowa\/WebObjects\/GiveToIowa.woa\/wa\/goTo?area=libraries\" >donating online or setting up a recurring gift<\/a> with The University of Iowa Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2016\/10\/Brain_transverse_section_of_cerebral_hemisphere__Wellcome_L0002346-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"brain_transverse_section_of_cerebral_hemisphere__wellcome_l0002346\">RAYMOND VIEUSSENS (1641-1715?). Neurographia universalis. Lyons: Apud Joannem Certe, 1685 The son of a French army officer, Vieussens provided his own support, studying philosophy at Rhodez and medicine at Montpellier. 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