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SCHLEGEL, Paul Marquard (1605–1653)
De sanguinis motu commentatio, in qua praecipue in Joh. Riolani,
V. C. sententiam inquiritur.
Hamburg: typis Jacobi Rebenlini, sumptu Zach. Hertelii, Bibliob. Hamb,
1650.
4to: a–b4 A–R4 , 76 leaves, pp. [16] 133 [3] (last page blank).
174 x 140mm. Title leaf soiled and frayed in the margins, cut close at
the top; headlines shaved.
Binding: Recent sheep.
First edition. Wellcome V, p. 48; Krivatsy 10495; Keynes, Bibliography of
the writings of Dr William Harvey (3rd ed. 1898), p. 123.
This is a defence of Harvey’s discovery of the circulation, addressed to Riolan,
one of Harvey’s most signiWcant critics. Riolan’s Enchiridium anatomicum was
published in Paris in 1648 and in Leiden in 1649: Harvey’s reply, Exercitatio
anatomica de circulatione sanguinis was published later in the same year, the Wrst
response in print to any of his critics. Riolan continued his attack in Opuscula
anatomica nova (London, 1649). Schlegel replies to Riolan, and in the preface
he tells how he had failed to convert Caspar HoVmann (1572–1648), his
teacher. Harvey had personally demonstrated the circulation to HoVmann
at Nuremberg in 1636 (See Keynes, Bibliography p. 123; and Pagel, William
Harvey’s Biological Ideas, p. 196).
For an appraisal of Riolan’s position in the history of the reception of Harvey’s
discovery Pagel (op. cit., p. 75 n. 8) cites K. E. Rothschuh, Jean Riolan jun. (1580–
1657) im Streit mit Paul Marquart Schlegel (1605–1653) um die Blutbewegungslehre
Harveys. Ein Beitrag zu Geschichte und Psychologie des wissenschaftlichen Irrtums
Gesnerus, 1964, xxi, 72–82.
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SCHRECK, Johann or TERRENTIuS (1576–1630)
Epistolium ex regno Sinarum ad mathematicos Euopaeos missum:
cum commentatiuncula J. Keppleri mathematici. Eiusdem ex
ephemeride anni M. DC. XXX, de insigni defectu solis, apotelesmata
calculi Rudolphini. Cum privilegio Caesareo ad annos XV.
Sagan: Excuderunt Petrus Cobius & Johannes Wiske, 1630.
4to: A–B4 C6 , 14 unnumbered leaves.
175 x 135. Paper slightly discoloured but a fresh copy.
Binding: Recent boards.
First edition. Caspar 82 (truncating the title and with incorrect collation);
Sommervogel VII, col. 1928, no. 9.
This collection of letters from Schreck, a Jesuit scientist working on calendar
reform in China, includes one to Kepler, with Kepler’s detailed reply. The