Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 265

GUIDO GUIDI (1508-1569) De anatome corporis humani libri VII. Apud Juntas 1611 [14] 342 [4] pp., 79 plates (plate 33 mounted over plate 34). 33.5 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 263

Guidi's anatomical studies were performed at the University of Pisa after his return to Italy in 1548 but were not published until many years after his death when his nephew compiled and edited them. This long delay may account for the fact that the book received little acclaim even though his descriptions of the vertebrae, cartilaginous structures, and bones of the skull were better than those of his predecessors. Guidi also made original studies on the mechanics of articulation in the human body and described the anatomical structures in the pterygoid bone that bear his name. Some of the figures in the seventy-nine engraved copperplates were adapted from Vesalius, a fact which Guidi states early in the book.

Cited references: Choulant-Frank, p. 212; Garrison-Morton 380; Waller 3816

Gift of John Martin, M.D.