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The object of the notes is : 



1. To give concise information as to the facts mentioned by Steno, in 

 cases where these facts cannot be supposed to be immediately intelligible 

 to readers with an ordinary scientific training. 



2. To give an account of the different, more important readings in the 

 various editions o/Steno's works. 



3. To give the correct and complete titles of the works, to which reference 

 has been made by Steno, as well as to show where in these works the 

 quotation or the passage referred to by Steno is to be found. 



4. To give short biographical data about the persons mentioned by Ste* 

 no. In the case of the Danes these data have been made a little more 

 complete, as the foreign reader will have greater difficulty in procuring 

 satisfactory information about them. Reference has generally been made 

 to biographical dictionaries, such as must be supposed to exist in every 

 larger library, only in a few cases to monographs on the persons in question. 



On the other hand no attempt has been made to give, in the notes, longer 

 historical explanations of the relation of science to the various scientific 

 questions, which have been treated in Steno's works, seeing that this would 

 carry us much too far and naturally belongs somewhere else. 



The quotations in the notes have been printed with the orthography of 

 the work, from which they have been taken, so also the titles of books. 

 Exceptions are such quotations and titles, as the editor only knows at 

 second hand. For typographical reasons it has also been impossible to 

 render several of the abbreviations. 



The most important biographies of Steno are: 



Domenico Maria Manni, Vita Del Letter atissimo Monsig. NiccoloSte* 

 none Di Danimarca Vescovo Di 1 itopoli E VicarioApostolico. Firenze 1 775. 



Angelus Fabronius, Vitae Italorum Doctrina Excellentium, Qui Sae= 

 culis XVII. Et XVIII. Floruerunt. Pisis 1778-1805. vol. III. 1779. 



J. Wichfeld, Erindringer Om Den Danske Videnskabsmand Niels Sten* 

 sen — Nicolaus Steno. Historisk Tidsskrift, 3 Rxkke, 4 Bind. Kjeben* 

 havn 1865. 



C. C. A. Gosch, Udsigt Over Danmarks Zoologiske Literatur, 2 Afi 

 deling, 1 Hefte. Kjebenhavn 1872. 



Wilhelm Plenkers S. J., Der Dane Niels Stensen. Freiburg im Breisgau 

 1884. 



A. D. Jorgensen, Mis Stensen. Kebenhavn 1884. 



