Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 680.5

DANIEL LE CLERC (1652-1728) Bibliotheca anatomica, sive, Recens in anatomia inventorum thesaurus locupletissimus : in quo integra atque absolutissima totius corporis humani descriptio, ejusdémque oeconomia è praestantissimorum quorúmque anatomicorum tractatibus singularibus : tum hactenus in lucem editis, tum etiam ineditis, concinnata exhibetur : adiecta est partium omnium administratio anatomica, cum variis earundem praeparationibus curiosissimis / digesserunt, tractatus suppleverunt, argumenta, notulas, & observationes anatomico-practicas addiderunt Daniel Le Clerc & J. Jacobus Mangetus ... Sumptibus Joannis Anthonii Chouët 1685 2 volumes, [86] leaves of plates. Vol. 1: [34], 763, [1] p., [37] leaves of plates (2 folded); v. 2: 1106 p., [49] leaves of plates. 36 cm

For more information on this author or work, see number: 681

This two-volume set represents a huge anthology on anatomy and physiology including many important contemporary writing and writers including Glisson, Malpighi, Willis, Lower, Havers, Vieussens and others. Included also is the complete text of William Harvey’s Exercitations de generatione animalium, Exercitatio de motu cordis, and Exercitationes de circulation sanguinis. Each of the works with engraved plates duplicating the originals – for example the “Circle of Willis” is nicely reproduced in the Cerebri Anatome also the case in works by Harvey, Lower and others. An impressive compilation of contemporary anatomical works, reproducing the original text and plates.

See Related Record(s): 681 682

Cited references: Cushing L111; NLM 17th 6758; Osler 3192; Waller 5663

John Martin M.D. Endowment