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| Very bone in the human body being here delineated 
" as large as the life, and again reduced to lefler feales, 
in order to fhew them united to one another; I thought 
it ufelefs to make long deferiptions, one view of fuch 
prints lhewing more than the fulleft and bell deferip- 
£ = i3S -=* tion can poffibly do; and for this reafon in the feveral 
chapters the mechanical contrivances of the bones are rather treated of 
than their fhapes. 
The fir It drawing we made was a front view of the fcull, (Tab. iii.) in the 
fame attitude with a molt excellent one in Vefalius (whofc figures were 
drawn and engraved by Giovanni Calker, as Giorgio Vafari informs us in 
his book of the lives of the painters; they are performed in fo exquifite 
a taftc that they have ufually been taken for Titian’s, and always confide- 
red as a ftudy for painters; yet it mult be confefled, that moft of them 
are far fhort of juft reprefentations of the things they were drawn after) 
Then vve proceeded to others, mcafuring every part as exactly as we could, 
but we foon found it impofliblc to execute the difficult parts of fuch a 
work in this way; upon which I contrived (what I had long before me¬ 
ditated) a convenient camera obfeura to draw in, with which we corrected 
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