Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1116

JOHANN FRIEDRICH BLUMENBACH (1752-1840) Handbuch der vergleichenden Anatomie. Bey Heinrich Dieterich 1815 2nd ed. xvi, 555 pp., 8 plates. 19 cm.

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Blumenbach was the first German to lecture on comparative anatomy, and in this work he demonstrated the importance of comparative anatomy to the study of anthropology and human development.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 312 (1805 ed.); Waller 1163 (1805 ed.); Wellcome II, p. 183 (1805 ed.)