Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 829

BERNHARD SIEGFRIED ALBINUS (1697-1770) Historia musculorum hominis. Apud Theodorum Haak & Henricum Mulhovium 1734 696 pp., 8 plates. 24.1 cm.

Albinus, a native of Frankfurt, was no doubt the finest descriptive anatomist of his day, and his works were especially endowed by the artistic copper engravings by the renowned Jan Wandelaer. He was a pupil of Bidloo, Rau, and Boerhaave and, with the latter, brought out a praiseworthy edition of Vesalius (see No. 281). In the present work on the muscles of the human body, the happy conjunction of Albinus and Wandelaer is seen in the lengthy and detailed text of the anatomist and the eight engravings of the artist.

See Related Record(s): 281

Cited references: Cushing A106; Wellcome II, p. 26

Gift of John Martin, M.D.