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1662. Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Franciscum Moyardum & Petrum Leffen, 1662, 4°, (36), 121 pp. (123, 111/112 repeated, (1 p.) Nota, 56 woodcut and engraved text-illustrations, 10 engraved plates, contemporary vellum; complete fine copy. First Edition! Complete with all 56 woodcut and engraved text-illustrations (many of which are full-page) and the 10 full-page engraved plates (several folded), one of which is the heart-plate with the 6 moveable parts, the Cardiac-flaps. This edition was posthumously published and translation by Florentius Schuy. A seminal work, René Descartes (1596-1650) 'Treatise on man', is known as the first European textbook of physiology, and the first purely mechanistic account of bodily functions. "In the Treatise of man, Descartes did not describe man, but a kind of conceptual models of man, namely creatures, created by God, which consist of two ingredients, a body and a soul. "These men will be composed, as we are, of a soul and a body. First I must describe the body…
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Lugduni Batavorum (Ex Officinâ Hackiana), 1664.. (38), 121 [i.e.123] , (1)pp., 10 plates (2 folded, and two with overlaid movable flaps). 58 woodcut and engraved illus. Woodcut title-page device; head- and tailpieces. Sm. 4to. Full contemporary vellum. Second edition of the first European work on physiology, and the first mechanical account of bodily functions. Written by Descartes in the early 1630s, he was ready to publish in 1633, but delayed the publication when he learned of Galileos condemnation by the Catholic Church. He continued to correct and amend the manuscript, which was then translated into Latin by Florentius Schuyl, and published posthumously in 1662. The two plates with movable flaps are present. Ownership inscription, Ex-libris Vincenorij [-?] de Ambra, 1670
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1662. Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Petrum Leffen & Franciscum Moyardum, 1662, 4°, (36), 121 pp. (123, 111/112 repeated, (1 p.) Nota, 56 woodcut and engraved text-illustrations, 10 engraved plates, contemporary vellum; complete fine copy. First Edition! Complete with all 56 woodcut and engraved text-illustrations (many of which are full-page) and the 10 full-page engraved plates (several folded), one of which is the heart-plate with the 6 moveable parts, the Cardiac-flaps. This edition was posthumously published and translation by Florentius Schuy. A seminal work, René Descartes (1596-1650) 'Treatise on man', is known as the first European textbook of physiology, and the first purely mechanistic account of bodily functions. "In the Treatise of man, Descartes did not describe man, but a kind of conceptual models of man, namely creatures, created by God, which consist of two ingredients, a body and a soul. "These men will be composed, as we are, of a soul and a body. First I must describe the body…
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