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Title: 1693 Dictionarium historicum geographicum poeticum HAGUE ARMORIAL VELLUM antique

Description: C. STEPHANUS
Dictionarium historicum, geographicum, poeticum: Gentium, Hominum, Deorum Gentilium (....)
Cologne, 1693
Some foxing, vellum is soiled, with repaired tear at the upper end of the spine, and lower right corner of the front cover.
Prize page is removed (in front of the title)
Original vellum schoolprize binding with gilt coat of arms of the HAGUE with double gilt fillet lines on both covers, gilt spine with 5 raised bands
1059 pages
Size 8 1/4 by 10 1/2"
Text in Latin

Charles Estienne ( 1504–1564), known as Carolus Stephanus in Latin and Charles Stephens in English, was an early exponent of the science of anatomy in France.
Charles was a younger brother of Robert Estienne I, the famous printer, and son to Henri, who Latinized the family name as Stephanus.
After the usual humanistic training he studied medicine, and took his doctor's degree at Paris. He was for a time tutor to Jean-Antoine de Baïf, the future poet. It is uncertain whether he taught publicly.
His career was interrupted by the oppressive persecutions in which their religious opinions involved the family.
Éstienne, though from a family whose classical taste was their principal glory, did not betray the same servile imitation of the Galenian anatomy as his contemporary, Jacques Dubois. He appears to have been the first to detect valves in the orifice of the hepatic veins. He was ignorant, however, of the researches of the Italian anatomists; and his description of the brain is inferior to that given sixty years before by Alessandro Achillini. His comparison of the cerebral cavities to the human ear has persuaded F. Portal that he knew the inferior cornua, the hippocampus and its prolongations; but this is no reason for giving him that honour to the detriment of the reputation of Achillini, to whom, so far as historical testimony goes, the first knowledge of this fact is due.
The researches of Éstienne into the structure of the nervous system are, however, neither useless nor inglorious; and the circumstance of demonstrating a canal through the entire length of the spinal cord, which had neither been suspected by contemporaries nor noticed by successors till Jean-Baptiste de Sénac (1693–1770) made it known, is sufficient to place him high in the rank of anatomical discoverers.
From Charles Estienne's De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres (Paris, 1545).
In 1551, when Robert Estienne left Paris for Geneva, Charles, who had remained a Catholic, took charge of his printing establishment, and in the same year was appointed king's printer. In 1561 he became bankrupt, and he is said to have died in a debtors' prison.

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1693 Dictionarium historicum geographicum poeticum HAGUE ARMORIAL VELLUM antique

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