Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 744

HERMANN BOERHAAVE (1668-1738) Sermo academicus de comparando certo in physicis. Apud Petrum Vander Aa 1715 [2] 52 pp., 1 fold. plate.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 739

Boerhaave was vice-chancellor of the university and, on its anniversary in February 1715, he made this address on the progress in physics, as he had in 1709 for medicine. The added title page to this oration depicts Boerhaave addressing a large crowd in the institution's great auditory.

Cited references: Lindeboom 27; Osler 1099; Waller 1224