Ebook: Nicolaus Steno: Biography and Original Papers of a 17th Century Scientist

This is by far the most exhaustive biography on Niels Stensen, anatomist, geologist and bishop, better known as "Nicolaus Steno". We learn about the scientist’s family and background in Lutheran Denmark, of his teachers at home and abroad, of his studies and travels in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Bohemia and Germany, of his many pioneering achievements in anatomy and geology, of his encounters with Swammerdam, Malpighi and with members of the newly established Royal Society of London and the Accademia del Cimento in Florence, and with the philosopher Spinoza. It further treats Stensen’s religious conversion.
The book includes the full set of Steno's anatomical and geological scientific papers in original language. The editors thoroughly translated the original Latin text to English, and included numerous footnotes on the background of this bibliographic and scientific treasure from the 17th century.

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This is by far the most exhaustive biography on Niels Stensen, anatomist, geologist and bishop, better known as "Nicolaus Steno". We learn about the scientist’s family and background in Lutheran Denmark, of his teachers at home and abroad, of his studies and travels in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Bohemia and Germany, of his many pioneering achievements in anatomy and geology, of his encounters with Swammerdam, Malpighi and with members of the newly established Royal Society of London and the Accademia del Cimento in Florence, and with the philosopher Spinoza. It further treats Stensen’s religious conversion.
The book includes the full set of Steno's anatomical and geological scientific papers in original language. The editors thoroughly translated the original Latin text to English, and included numerous footnotes on the background of this bibliographic and scientific treasure from the 17th century.

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This is by far the most exhaustive biography on Niels Stensen, anatomist, geologist and bishop, better known as "Nicolaus Steno". We learn about the scientist’s family and background in Lutheran Denmark, of his teachers at home and abroad, of his studies and travels in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Bohemia and Germany, of his many pioneering achievements in anatomy and geology, of his encounters with Swammerdam, Malpighi and with members of the newly established Royal Society of London and the Accademia del Cimento in Florence, and with the philosopher Spinoza. It further treats Stensen’s religious conversion.
The book includes the full set of Steno's anatomical and geological scientific papers in original language. The editors thoroughly translated the original Latin text to English, and included numerous footnotes on the background of this bibliographic and scientific treasure from the 17th century.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxxviii
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
1 Childhood and Youth in Copenhagen 1638-1659....Pages 7-59
2 Years of Discovery in Holland 1660-1664....Pages 61-114
3 In Paris and France 1664-1665....Pages 115-140
4 The First Year in Italy....Pages 141-172
5 Researcher and Convert in Italy 1667....Pages 173-202
6 The Geological Dissertation the Prodromus on a Solid within a Solid in Italy 1668....Pages 203-233
7 The Great Travel 1668-1670....Pages 235-253
8 Under Cosimo III In Florence....Pages 255-285
9 The Two Years in Copenhagen 1672-1674....Pages 287-323
10 Educator and Priest in Florence 1675-1677....Pages 325-344
Front Matter....Pages 345-351
I On the First Discovery of an External Salivary Duct and on the Experiments of Bils....Pages 353-357
II On the Glands, of the Mouth and the New Salivary Ducts Proceeding from Them....Pages 359-389
III Various New Observations in the Eyes and Nose, Etc.....Pages 391-393
IV Response to Vindications for Rehabilitation of the Liver....Pages 395-405
V Anatomical Observations on the Glands of the Eyes....Pages 407-416
VI On Vessels of the Nose....Pages 417-420
VII Origin of Sweat From Glands. On the Insertion and Valvula of the Thoracic Duct and of the Lymphatics....Pages 421-423
VIII Why Tobacco Powder Makes the Eyes Clearer. Observation on a Milky Gelatin....Pages 425-428
Steno’s Scientific Life in a Nutshell (1638–1677)....Pages 1-2
Steno as Bishop (1677–1686): Summary of “Gustav Scherz, Niels Stensen, Vol. 2” [not included in this book]....Pages 3-4
Front Matter....Pages 345-351
IX Anatomical Observations in Birds and Rabbits....Pages 429-433
X Observations Concerning Movement of the Heart, the Auricles and Vena Cava, Extracted from Dissections of Various Animals Carried out Here and There....Pages 435-439
XI Vesicles in the Lung. Anatomy of a Pregnant Rabbit. Experiments in Lungs. The Milky Vessels of the Udders. Observations in a Swan, Etc.....Pages 441-445
XII Diversity of Lymphatic Ducts....Pages 446-448
XIII Prologue of an Apologia in Which it is Demonstrated that the Blaesian Judge is Ignorant in Anatomy and a Slave of his Sympathies....Pages 449-457
XIV New Structure of Muscles and Heart....Pages 459-462
XV Specimen of Observation on Muscles and Glands....Pages 463-485
XVI A Letter on the Anatomy of the Ray....Pages 487-497
XVII On the Passage of Yolk into the Intestines of the Chick....Pages 499-505
XVIII The Discourse on the Anatomy of the Brain....Pages 507-527
XIX Observations on Egg and Chick....Pages 529-536
XX Dissection of an Embryo Monster for Parisians....Pages 537-539
XXI The Uterus of a Hare Dissolving its Own Foetus....Pages 541-543
XXII Specimen of Elements of Myology....Pages 545-569
XXIII A Carcharodon-Head Dissected....Pages 571-595
XXIV Description of the Dissection of a Dogfish....Pages 597-602
XXV Anatomical Observations Concerning the Eggs of Viviparous Animals....Pages 603-609
XXVI Observations Concerning the Eggs of Viviparous Animals....Pages 611-620
XVII The Prodromus to a Dissertation on a Solid Naturally Contained Within a Solid....Pages 621-660
XXVIII On a Calf with Hydrocephalus....Pages 661-669
Front Matter....Pages 345-351
XXIX Letter to the Grand Duke Cosimo III on the Grotto Above Gresta....Pages 671-672
XXX Letter to the Grand Duke Cosimo III on the Grottos Above Moncodeno....Pages 673-677
XXXI Preface to Anatomical Demonstrations in the Copenhagen Theater in the Year 1673....Pages 679-684
XXXII Description of the Muscles of an Eagle....Pages 685-701
XXXIII Circular Course of the Blood Made Clearer Through Separation of the Ventricles of the Heart....Pages 703-705
Back Matter....Pages 707-739