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Fuchs, Samuel (1588-1630) Metoposcopia & Ophthalmoscopia.
Strasbourg: Excudebat Theodosius Glaserus Sumptibus Pauli Ledertz, 1615.
First edition, octavo, engraved image illustrating metoscopy to title; three small portraits of dedicatees in the preliminaries; numerous small woodcut and engraved portrait text illustrations throughout; second half of contents toned, due to quality of original paper stock; bound in full contemporary limp parchment; 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.
Fuchs's work on metoscopy, a technique of determining the subject's character by interpreting the pattern of lines on the forehead, a form of physiognomy famously advanced by Cardano, also includes the first text to propose opthalmoscopia, in which the eyes are analyzed with the same objective.
