This book is a classic study of human anatomy and physiology, drawing on the latest scientific discoveries of the 17th century to offer a detailed and comprehensive understanding of the human body. With contributions from several eminent scientists of the era, including Ren??? Descartes, the author examines every aspect of human anatomy, from the workings of the heart and lungs to the structure of the nervous system. With beautiful illustrations throughout, this book is an essential resource for students of medicine and ...
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This book is a classic study of human anatomy and physiology, drawing on the latest scientific discoveries of the 17th century to offer a detailed and comprehensive understanding of the human body. With contributions from several eminent scientists of the era, including Ren??? Descartes, the author examines every aspect of human anatomy, from the workings of the heart and lungs to the structure of the nervous system. With beautiful illustrations throughout, this book is an essential resource for students of medicine and biology. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Add this copy of De Homine Figuris to cart. $7,500.00, Sold by Heritage Book Shop, LLC rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Beverly Hills, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1662 by Apud Petrum Leffen & Franciscum Moyardum.
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1662, Apud Petrum Leffen & Franciscum Moyardum
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Apud Petrum Leffen & Franciscum Moyardum
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1662
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Latin
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SCHUYL, Florentius. et Latinitate donatus a Florentio Schuyl...De homine figuris. et Latinitate donatus a Florentio Schuyl...Leiden: Apud Petrum Leffen & Franciscum Moyardum, 1662. Full Description: DESCARTES, René. SCHUYL, Florentius, [translator]. De homine figuris et Latinitate donatus a Florentio Schuyl...Leiden: Apud Petrum Leffen & Franciscum Moyardum, 1662. First edition, rare with all flaps called for. The issue with Leffen's name appearing first in the imprint (another issue exists with the two publisher's names reversed; see Guibert, p. 197). G-M 574, no priority. Small quarto (8 x 6 1/8 inches; 205 x 157 mm). [2, blank], [36], 121 [i.e., 123], [1, notes] pp. Ten engraved plates, including several of the brain and the famous “dissected” plate of the heart (Fig. I facing p. 9) with the interior parts shown by means of lift-up flaps, and another engraved plate (Fig. LIV following p. 118) with the often missing small lift-up flap. Numerous engraved and woodcut text illustrations, many of which are full page. Woodcut printer's device (a phoenix rising from the flames with motto: “Ex morte immortalitas”) on title. Engraved head-and-tail pieces. Historiated initials. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked to style. Boards ruled in blind. Spine with red morocco spine label. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Some repairs to boards. Corners bumped and chipped. Plate with overlays trimmed to plate line at outer margin, but not affecting illustration. One folding plate with some closed tearing at creases, but with no loss. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Overall a very good copy. “Descartes's bibliographer A.J. Guibert notes two states of the title page: one with the imprint ‘Apud Petrum Leffen & Franciscum Moyardum' and a woodcut printer's device of a phoenix rising from the flames, with the motto Ex morte immortalia; the other with the names of the publishers reversed and a device showing an angel under a laurel tree, with the motto Insigne maxime laurus. He does not establish any priority of issue” (Grolier, Medicine). The first European textbook of physiology, and "the first attempt to present systematically a coherent description of bodily responses in terms of actual-or hypothetical-neuromuscular structures" (Fearing, Reflex Action [1964], pp. 18-28). In the first two parts, "On the bodily machine, " and "How the machine moves itself, " Descartes puts forth his theory of bodily automatism-the origin of the "machine man" or "robot" concept. “The first European textbook of physiology. The work was based upon Descartes's concept of ‘l'homme machine, ' an automaton constructed by God to approximate real men as closely as possible; by means of this literary device Descartes was able to avoid the restrictions and encumbrances of traditional physiology and theology, and to explain all the physical motions, except for deliberately wilful, rational or self-conscious behavior, in purely mechanical terms. The work is particularly noteworthy for containing ‘the first descriptive statement of involuntary action which bears a recognizable resemblance to the modern concept of reflex action' (Fearing, p. 26); Descartes had first used the work ‘reflex' in a neurophysiological sense in Les passions de l'âme. Descartes wrote De homine as a physiological appendix to Discours sur la méthode (1637), but suppressed it after the condemnation of Galileo in 1633, fearing that his mechanistic view of the human body might be considered heretical. It was first published in this Latin translation by Schuyl, with the original French version appearing two years later” (Norman Library). Provenance: From the Arthur E. Lyons MD Collection of Medical and Scientific Books, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Cushing D117. Garrison and Morton 574. Lilly Library, Notable Medical Books, p. 81. Norman Library 627. Osler 931. Waller 2376. Wellcome II, p. 453. HBS 69208. $7, 500.
