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morbus eji, qui ex fpiritu fafcinantis per 

 oculos fafcinati ad cor ipjius ingrejjb 

 pervenit: fpiritus enim cordis a calore 

 ex puriori J anguine generatur. Tales au= 

 tern funt in nobis fpiritus, qualis eji 

 fanguinis humor. Spiritus autem Jimiles 

 Jibi radios per oculos quaji per vitreas 

 fenejhas emittit. Cor enim fuo perpetuo 

 quodam motu proximum Jibi fanguinem 

 agitans ex eo fpiritu, in totum corpus, 

 perque illos luminum fcintillas per mem= 

 bra diffundit quidem Jingula, per oculos 

 autem maxime. Ad altifjimas partes, cum 

 fit leviffimus, maxime evolat fpiritus, 

 ejufque lumen per oculos cum perfpicui 

 maxime &■ nitidi fint, maxime emicat. 

 Nam quod aliquod lumen in oculis fit, 

 patet ex eo, quod quorundam brutorum 

 oculi in tenebris micant. 



P. 109. I. 18-19 from bottom. 



Cartefius ... in fuo De Homine 

 Tractatu] In the work in question 

 Descartes has nothing to that effect 

 about the tears. Steno no doubt had in 

 mind what he says in Les Passions De 

 L'Ame, Article CXXVIII. See note to 

 vol. I p. 85. 1. 10 from bottom. 



P. 109. 1. 10-11 from bottom. 



detectis novis lacrymarum . . . 

 rivulis] See the Treatise V in the pre* 

 sent Edition, especially vol. I p. 85. 1. 10 

 from bottom. 



P. 110. 1. 14 from bottom. 



in Peireskii Vita Gaffendus] 

 See Viri Illvstris Nicolai Clavdii Fabri* 

 cii De Peiresc . . . Vita, Per Petrvm 

 Gassendvm . . . Parisiis 1641. lib. V 

 p. 280: Animaduertit fi quidem ocu= 

 los fuos Jic excipere imagines rerum, 

 vt afferuarent Mas diutiiis, 6- maxime 

 quidem cum a fomno humefcerent. Sic 



expertus eji millies, cum refpexiffet in 

 feneflram clathris igneis, quadratulifque 

 papyraceis interJHnctam, cir cumf err efefe 

 deinceps illius for mam in oculis; fed 

 cum eo difcrimine, vt fi claufos quidem 

 contineret, turn clathros obfcuros, &■ 

 quadratula Candida, cuiufmodi confpecta 

 fuerant, videre adhuc videretur. 



P. 110. 1. 10-11 from bottom. 



cum Nobil. Gerftorphiis meis] 

 Ole Borch was for five years the tutor 

 of the sons of Joachim Gersdorf, the 

 Lord High Steward of Denmark. When 

 in 1660 he was appointed professor at 

 the University of Copenhagen and went 

 abroad, this connection ceased. In 1661, 

 however, Joachim Gersdorf died, and 

 his sons were sent abroad to be once 

 more in the care of Borch. Steno made 

 their acquaintance in Holland. See Dansk 

 biografisk Lexikon, vol. II p. 501. 



P. 111. 1. 6 from bottom. 



cum Rolandi Sturmii . . . tracta* 

 tu] Febrifugi Peruviani Vindiciarum 

 Pars Prior (et Altera) . . . Auctore Ro= 

 lando Sturmio. Delphis 1659. — In this 

 book the author strongly advocates Pe* 

 ruvian bark as a remedy against fevers. 

 The poem in honour of the author, 

 placed at the beginning of the book, 

 cannot be said to exaggerate when it 

 opens with the following eulogy: 



lam fugiunt Rolande febres, jam pallida cedit 

 Mors tibi, jam vitam fama benigna refert. 



Quern laudas veteri cortex ex arbore vita; 

 Hie fupereft — 



IX 



OBSERVATIONES ANATOMIC/E 

 IN AVIBUS & CUNICULIS. 



This Letter from Steno to Th. J3ar= 



