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DESCARTES, RENÉ. De homine figuris et Latinitate donatus a Florentio Schuyl. 10 engraved plates, the first depicting the heart, with 2 lift-up flaps, the seventh, of the brain, with one flap; numerous full-page and text engravings and woodcuts. [40], 121 [i. e., 123], [1] pages. 4to, modern speckled calf with morocco lettering piece; light marginal dampstaining, variously affecting the plates. Leiden: Officina Hackiana, 1664
Second edition of the first European textbook of physiology, originally published in 1662. "Descartes considered the human body a material machine, directed by a rational soul located in the pineal body"--Garrison-Morton 574 (original edition); Guibert, pages 199-200; Krivatsy 3121 (this edition).
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