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First edition in English. The Thomason copy is annotated 2 October.
Keynes 43; Wing H1085; ESTC R13027.
The English edition of Harvey’s second great work was published in the same
year and in the same format as the Wrst English edition of De motu cordis, but
by diVerent booksellers. The translation, much praised by Needham for its
vivid style, has been attributed to Dr Martin Llewelyn who contributed the
prefatory poem, but Keynes Wnds no evidence for this and tentatively suggests
that it was done by Harvey’s friend George Ent who had seen the Wrst edition
through the press.
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HAVERS, Clopton (d. 1702)
Osteologia nova, or Some new observations of the bones, and the
parts belonging to them, with the manner of their accretion, and
nutrition, communicated to the Royal Society in several discourses.
I. Of the membrane, nature, constituent parts, and internal structure
of the bones. II. Of accretion, and nutrition, as also of the aVections
of the bones in the rickets, and of venereal nodes. III. Of the medulla,
or marrow. IV. Of the mucilaginous glands, with the etiology or
explication of the causes of a rheumatism, and the gout, and the
manner how they are produced. To which is added a Wfth discourse of
the cartilages.
London: printed for Samuel Smith at the Prince’s-Arms in St. Paul’s
Church-yard, 1691.
8vo: A–T8 u4 , 156 leaves, pp. [16] 294 [2]. Imprimatur leaf before
title, publisher’s advertisements on last leaf.
2 engraved plates, numbered Tab. I–II, the second folded (bound after
prelims).
180 x 108mm. Clean tears at the top of A6 and A7 with slight loss to
the blank margin and aVecting the text but without loss.
Binding: Contemporary calf. Joints cracked but cords holding, inner
hinge strengthened, free endleaves removed, very worn.
Provenance: John Lund, signature on title (nineteenth century?).
First edition. A second edition was published in 1729. Wing H1162;
ESTC R21003; Garrison–Morton 387; Russell 395; Norman
Catalogue 1024.
‘The Wrst complete and systematic study of the structure of the bones. Havers
gave the Wrst full description of the microscopic structure of the bone canals
made for the passage of blood­vessels, named “Haversian canals” in his honor.
He also descried the Haversian lamellae, the synovial fringes and folds, and the
small penetrating prolongation of the periosteum; the treatise’s two engraved
plates provide a clear schema of the structures he had discovered. He made
important observations on bone growth, correcting Glisson’s statement that
uneven rickety bones grow on their harder side.’ (Norman Library 1024.)