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teenth century. Anolher very celebrated publication of this 

 author, is the Cosmologia Sacra, or " a discourse of the uni- 

 verse, as it is the creature and kingdom of God." — This was 

 chiefly composed to demonstrate the truth and excellence of 

 the sacred writings. Dr. Grew died in 1711. Trans. Royal 

 Soc, Loud, JV*a(.' Jihrid, vol, 1. jmge 660. 



eYotc 7. 

 Thomas Willis was born in Wiltshire, in 1621, and died in 

 1675. He was an excellent anatomist, as he has proved in his 

 Anatome Cerebri, He also wrote PathoJogia Cerebri, and De 

 elnima Brutorum. His works were publisiied in London, 

 1679, in Latin, and 1681, in English. 



JS^ote 8. 

 Edward Tyson was a celebrated physician and anatomist 

 of the seventeenth century, and a great contributor to the 

 Philosophical Transactions, especially on subjects relative 

 to natural history and comparative anatomy. He read lec- 

 tures at Gresham college. Besides his numerous commu- 

 nications to the royal society, he published the following 

 works ; Phoc?ena, or an anatomy of a porpus, 1680. Cari- 

 gueya sen Marsupiale Americanum, or the anatomy of an 

 opossum, dissected at Gresham college, 1698, (of which an 

 account is also inserted in the Philosophical Transactions.) 

 The anatomy of a pigmy compared with a monkey, an ape, 

 and man, 1699. Trans. Royal Soc, Lond, JWiv Jlbrid, vol, 2. 

 page 448. 



JVofe 9. 

 Samuel Collins published " a system of anatomy of the bo- 

 dy of man, beasts, birds, insects and plants," 2 volumes folio, 

 1685, with numerous plates, accurately representing the 

 parts described : there is as much comparative as human 

 anatomy in the work. 



JVofe 10. 

 Richard Lower was one of the best anatomists of the se- 

 venteenth century. He was educr.ted at Oxford, took his 

 degree of M. H. in that University, and exercised his pro- 



