Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 401

PIETER PAUW (1564-1617) Primitiae anatomicae. De humani corporis ossibus. Ex officina Justi à Colster 1615 [xvi] 188 pp., illus., 4 fold. plates. 19.7 cm.

Pauw studied at Leiden, Paris, and Rostock, and was a pupil of Fabricius at Padua. He was professor of anatomy and botany at Leiden and founded the first anatomical theater there in 1597. A follower of Vesalius, he edited an edition of the Epitome in 1616 (see No. 294) and made a number of important contributions to craniology and osteology. Perhaps the first osteological work to be published in the Netherlands, this volume on the skeletal system contains several fine folding plates of the skeleton and skull.

See Related Record(s): 294

Cited references: Cushing P161; Waller 7254; Wellcome 4682

Gift of John Martin, M.D.