Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 469

RENé DESCARTES (1596-1650) L'homme. Charles Angot 1664 [70] 448 [8] pp., illus. 23 cm.

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This first French edition is the original text as composed by Descartes and edited by his good friend, Claude Clerselier (1614-1684). This edition also contains the first printing of his treatise De la formation du foetus, completed just before his death. The fine woodcuts in this edition were partly based on Descartes' drawings from the manuscript and partly prepared by the co-editors, Louis de la Forge (1632-1666?) and Gérard van Gutschoven (fl. 1660).

Cited references: Cushing D121; Osler 933 (1677 ed.); Wellcome II, p. 453

Gift of John Martin, M.D.