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FABRICI, Girolamo. Opera omnia anatomica et physiologica. Leiden: Johann van Kerck, 1738.
2o (331 x 211 mm). Half-title. Engraved portrait frontispiece and 61 plates (several folding ) (some light foxing). (Some light foxing and browning to text, frontispiece and title-page with lower margin renewed, last leaf (register) patched.) Contemporary half vellum, uncut (corners lightly bumped, pastedown repaired). Provenance: Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777), the noted Swiss anatomist and physiologist (bookplate with Haller's motto and signature on front free endpaper).
Later edition. Albinus' edition of Fabrici is probably the finest of the collected editions of Fabrici's celebrated anatomical and physiological works, presenting the valves in the veins, the embryonic development of the chick and other animals, as well as his studies on the anatomy of the eye, ear and throat, and the physiology of muscle. This copy is from the library of Albinus' friend and correspondent, Albrecht von Haller, the anatomist, physiologist, bibliographer, naturalist, and poet. Among his prolific contributions, Haller made very significant contributions to embryology. "Haller's most important finding in embryology again shows his statistical bias: he was able to devise a numerical method to demonstrate the rate of growth of the fetal body and its parts. By the quantitative determination he showed that fetal growth is relatively rapid in its earlier stages but that the tempo gradually decreases. These observations were entirely new, and remain fundamentally correct. Their significance seems to have eluded Haller, however, since he does mention them in a list of his own original anatomical and physiological discoveries"(Needham, 1959). With portrait, not always present. In addition to all of his scientific work, Haller was one of the greatest bibliographers in the history of science. He published one of the first subject bibliographies of anatomical literature. See Garrison-Morton 465-66, 757. Heirs of Hippocrates 231, 1738 issue; NLM/Blake 141. Not in Waller, Wellcome or Osler. See also the website devoted to Haller's work at the University of Bern. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.
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Later edition. Albinus' edition of Fabrici is probably the finest of the collected editions of Fabrici's celebrated anatomical and physiological works, presenting the valves in the veins, the embryonic development of the chick and other animals, as well as his studies on the anatomy of the eye, ear and throat, and the physiology of muscle. This copy is from the library of Albinus' friend and correspondent, Albrecht von Haller, the anatomist, physiologist, bibliographer, naturalist, and poet. Among his prolific contributions, Haller made very significant contributions to embryology. "Haller's most important finding in embryology again shows his statistical bias: he was able to devise a numerical method to demonstrate the rate of growth of the fetal body and its parts. By the quantitative determination he showed that fetal growth is relatively rapid in its earlier stages but that the tempo gradually decreases. These observations were entirely new, and remain fundamentally correct. Their significance seems to have eluded Haller, however, since he does mention them in a list of his own original anatomical and physiological discoveries"(Needham, 1959). With portrait, not always present. In addition to all of his scientific work, Haller was one of the greatest bibliographers in the history of science. He published one of the first subject bibliographies of anatomical literature. See Garrison-Morton 465-66, 757. Heirs of Hippocrates 231, 1738 issue; NLM/Blake 141. Not in Waller, Wellcome or Osler. See also the website devoted to Haller's work at the University of Bern. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.