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”
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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”
Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, July 2014: Nathaniel Highmore
Nathaniel Highmore (1613-1685) Corporis Humani Disquisitio Anatomica The Hague: Ex oficina Samuelis Brown, 1651. [Image via Fisher Library Digital Collections, University of Toronto]. Nathaniel Highmore of Dorset, England was a British surgeon known for his 1651 treatise on anatomy, the first of its kind to give an accurate account of the circulatory system. Highmore studiedContinue reading “Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, July 2014: Nathaniel Highmore”
Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, May 2014: Jean Étienne Dominique Esquirol
Jean Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772-1840) Des maladies mentales considérées sous les rapports médical, hygiénique et médicolégal. 2 vols. Brussels : J.B. Tircher, 1838. Esquirol’s drawing of an inmate of Bethlem Hospital. As Pinel’s most outstanding pupil, Esquirol so closely followed his teacher’s works that the contributions of the two men are sometimes confused. Like Pinel, EsquirolContinue reading “Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, May 2014: Jean Étienne Dominique Esquirol”
The Father of Biomechanics: Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, 1680-1681
Borelli. [Image via wikipedia.org] Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608-1679) was an Italian Renaissance physicist who sought to make mechanical laws applicable to all physiological phenomena. Borelli, who studied at Padua under Galileo, regarded the human body essentially as a machine whose functions could be explained by the laws of physics. He mentored Marcello Malpighi– who wentContinue reading “The Father of Biomechanics: Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, 1680-1681”
Ibn Butlan’s Tacuini Sanitatis (1531)
Image via the guardian.com, credit Royal Society This images are from a 14th century translation of Arabic doctor Ibn Butlan, who died circa 1068. Butlan’s title roughly translates to “health report.” The report addresses the impact of nature, emotional states, daily life, and meteorological conditions on health. Butlan wrote that his book concerned “the sixContinue reading “Ibn Butlan’s Tacuini Sanitatis (1531)”