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NOTES 



quippe in has, ut diximus, afperae puU 

 monum arteriae foraminibus hiulcis ape= 

 riuntur. 



P. 118. 1. 17 from top. 



cum Celeberrimo Pifone] Willem 

 Piso (1611—1678), who was born in 

 Leyden, took his doctor's degree in Caen 

 in 1630, and in 1637 he became Physi* 

 cian in Ordinary to Count Joan Mau= 

 rits of Nassau. He took part in a long 

 journey to Brazil, and, from 1648 until 

 his death, he lived as a physician in Am* 

 sterdam. Among other works he is the 

 author of De Medicina Brasiliensi Libri 

 Qvatvor . . . Lvgdvn. Batavorvm et Am= 

 stelodami 1648 and De India? Utriusque 

 Re Naturali Et Medica Libri Qvatvor* 

 decim . . . Amstelaedami 1658. See Biogr. 

 Woordenboek der Nederlanden, vol. XV 

 p. 332 and Biographiscb.es Lexikon der 

 hervorrag. Aerzte von E. Gurlt, vol. IV 

 p. 577. 



P. 118. 1. 18 from top. 



Dn. Gottwaldo] Cristoph Gottwaldt 

 (1636—1700) was a learned physician 

 and scientist from Dantzic (Gedanum). 

 He was made a doctor in Leyden 1662. 

 See Biographisches Lexikon der her= 

 vorrag. Aerzte von E. Gurlt, vol. II 

 p. 609. 



P. 120. 1. 13 from top. 



Cartefii Tractatus de Homine] 

 Renatus Des Cartes De Homine Figvris 

 Et Latinitate Donatus AFlorentio Schuyl, 

 Inclytae Urbis Sylvae Ducis Senatore, &■ 

 ibidem Philofophiae Profejfore. Lvgdvni 

 Batavorum 1662. The French original 

 appeared two years later. — Sylva Ducis 

 is the Dutch s'Hertogenbosch. 



X 



ex variorum animalium 

 sectionibus hinc inde fao 

 tis excerpts observation 

 nes circa motum cordis 

 auricularumqve & vena: 

 cava:. 



The observations mentioned in this 

 Treatise are either identical with those 

 mentioned in the previous Letter to Th. 

 Bartholin (IX, vol. I p. 113 in the pre* 

 sent Edition) or they are closely con* 

 nected with the latter, being in all pro* 

 bability made almost at the same time, 

 i. e. in Leyden in 1662. The text itself 

 practically only consists of brief notes 

 on each observation, and Steno has made 

 no attempt to work them up into a 

 whole; no doubt they were meant to 

 form part of an exhaustive study on 

 animal motion or more especially on 

 the motion of the heart, which work, 

 however, he never accomplished. The 

 very last part of the Treatise, from Pof= 

 fent inde alia (p. 127. 1. 9 from top) to 

 the end, in language as well as in contents, 

 differs from the other part, and has 

 certainly been added by Steno at a far 

 later period, viz. when from 1672 till 

 1674 he was Anatomicus Regius in 

 Copenhagen and left the Treatise in the 

 hands of Bartholin to be published by 

 him in Acta Medica Et Philosophica 

 Hafniensia, where it is found in vol. II, 

 1675, as No. XXXXVI p. 141. 



P. 124. 1. 9 from top. 



repetitis] Acta Hafn. has repetitus. 



P. 124. 1. 11 from top. 



& arteriae ductus] Acta Hafn. has 

 ex arteriae ductus. 



