Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)
Grateful acknowledgements are made for assistance from the National Science Foundation in the preparation of this work; to the British Museum for permission to photograph the only copy of David Edwardes’s _Introduction_ known to be in existence; and to the Wellcome Trust whose...
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2. Part 2Little more can be said about Edwardes. He seems to have died about 1542,[35] and perhaps this explains why the larger work was never to be published. Perhaps, had he remained a...
1. Part 1Grateful acknowledgements are made for assistance from the National Science Foundation in the preparation of this work; to the British Museum for permission to photograph the on...
3. Part 3[20]This sequence was followed in Paris where in particular Guinther of Andernach and Jacobus Sylvius were proceeding from their study of Galen’s medical writings to those of an...
5. Part 5[28]Edwardes is to a degree correct when he says that life remains longest in the auricles. Slow contraction of the auricles can be seen for a short time after contraction of th...