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150 x 88mm.
Binding: Nineteenth­century vellum boards, rebacked. Gilt stamp of
Schloss Altenberg on upper board. A manuscript Wgure 2 suggests this
was formerly bound with other tracts, and the binding is possibly a
reimboîtage.
First edition. Krivatsy 10006.
Rudbeck’s discovery of the lymphatic system, was reported in Nova exercitatio
anatomica, exhibens ductus hepaticos aquosos et vasa glandularum serosa
(Västerås, 1653). Just a few weeks earlier Thomas Bartholin’s Vasa lymphatica
was published at Copenhagen, reporting his independent discovery of the
lymphatics. In the ensuing priority dispute, Bartholin remained aloof but his
student, Martin Bogdan, attacked Rudbeck’s work accusing him of plagiarism
in Insidiae structae Thomae Bartholini Vasis lymphaticis ab Olao Rudbekio
(Frankfurt, 1654). Rudbeck defended himself in the present work. The
controversy continued with Bogdan’s response, Apologia pro vasis lymphaticis,
published in the same year, and Rudbeck’s Wnal statement of his position
in 1657 in Ad Thomam Bartholinum Danum Epistola, re­iterating his claims
to priority. (See Sten Lindroth, DSB 11: 587a; see also Pecquet, no. 150
above).
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RuLAND, Martin, the younger (1569–1611)
Lexicon alchemiae sive dictionarium alchemisticum, cum
obscuriorum verborum, & rerum hermeticarum, tum Theophrast­
Paracelsicarum phrasium, planam explicationem continens.
Frankfurt: Cura ac sumptibus Zachariae Palthenii, librarii ac D. in libera
Francofurtensium repub., 1612.
4to: ):( 4 A–3P4 , 248 leaves, pp [8] 471 (i.e. 487, 479–487 misnumbered
945, 480, 465–71) [1] (last page blank). Woodcut device on title with
hieroglyphics, 2 woodcut illustrations in the margin of p. 22.
200 x 155mm. Paper browned, mostly lightly but heavier in a few
gatherings.
Binding: Contemporary sprinkled calf, red sprinkled edges. Leather
from bottom half of spine torn away, joints cracked but cords holding.
Provenance: Royal College of Medicine, Edinburgh, with cancelled
library stamp on last page.
First edition. The Wellcome and Neville copies are a variant with the
beginning of the dedicatory epistle repeated on ):(4, here blank. The
sheets were re­issued in 1661 with reset prelims. An English translation
was published in 1893 and reprinted in 1964. Wellcome I, 5638;
Krivatsy 10034; Ferguson II, p. 302; Duveen p. 520.
‘Ruland’s work is signiWcant as an illustration of the process of the assimilation
of Paracelsian reforms in medicine and chemistry, which had an important
impact on the development of those Welds in the late sixteenth and early
seventeenth centuries.’ (N. H. Clulee, DSB 11: 606b.)