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VARLS IN OCULIS & NASO OB. 

 SERVATIONES NOVJE &C. 



This Letter from Steno to Thomas 

 Bartholin, dated Leyden September 12, 

 1661, is found in Thomas Bartholini 

 Epist. Medicin. Cent. III. Hafhiae 1667. 

 Epist. LVII p. 224. 



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itineri debetur] Steno had been on 

 an excursion in Holland from July 27 

 to August 14, 1661, in the company of 

 Ole Borch (see Introduction and note 

 to vol. I p. 35. 1. 17— 18 from bottom), 

 Jesrgen Hasebard (see the following no* 

 te) and a couple of foreign students. 

 On this trip he made the acquaintance, 

 amongst others, of Peder Schumacher 

 (see Introduction and Dansk biografisk 

 Lexikon, vol. XV p. 371) and of Born 

 who is mentioned below. 



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reduximus Hafebardum] Jergen 

 Hasebard, the son of the Bishop of 

 Viborg (Denmark), Wichman Hase= 

 bard, matriculated at the University 

 of Leyden, September 14, 1661, and was 

 styled pol. et hist. stud. He died in 1670 

 as Professor Designatus of Odense 

 Gymnasium (Denmark). 



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Walgefteinium . . . offendimus] 

 Thomas Rasmussen Walgensten, born 

 on the isle of Gothland, studied mathe* 

 matics at the University of Copenhagen 

 and was for many years, until his death, 

 the editor of an almanac. He is found 

 to have matriculated twice at the Uni* 

 versity of Leyden (1657 and 1669), so 

 it was during his first stay in Holland 

 that .Steno made his acquaintance. In 



1670 he became Inspector of the King's 

 Model Chamber in Copenhagen, being at 

 the same time entrusted with the super* 

 intendence of the erection of public 

 buildings in that city. Among other 

 works he took part in the equipment 

 of the Large Room in The Great Royal 

 Library. He died in 1682 as Commis* 

 sioner and Provincial Judge on Goth* 

 land during the Danish occupation of 

 that island. See Dansk biografisk Lexi= 

 kon, vol. XVIII p. 218 (G. L. Wad). 



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Burr/iiauxilio] Gioseppe Francesco 

 Borri (1625-1695), a native of Milan 

 where his father, himself a member of 

 a renowned family, practiced medicine. 

 He was educated at the College of 

 Jesuits in Rome, and afterwards entered 

 the service of the Papal Court; but 

 when, an enthusiast and a mystic, he 

 endeavoured to establish a sect of his 

 own, he had to leave Rome for Milan 

 to escape the Inquisition (1655). How* 

 ever he kept on working to found a 

 new church and a new state, the su* 

 preme head of which he was to be, so 

 at last an action was brought against 

 him in Rome, and he was burned in 

 effigie. Already during the law*suit he 

 had fled to Holland (1659) and for 

 several years lived in Amsterdam, 

 where he studied chemistry and al* 

 chemy, enjoying a great reputation as 

 a physician. In Holland he made the 

 acquaintance of many prominent Danes, 

 among others of Ulrik Frederik Gylden- 

 leve and Hannibal Sehested, and 

 through them he may have heard about 

 the interest taken by the King of Den* 

 mark, Frederik III, in the science of 

 alchemy. At any rate he went to Co* 

 penhagen in 1667, where he stayed 



