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Regnier de Graaf (30 July 1641 - 17 August 1673)

Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnier_de_Graaf References in Documents:
Grew, Musaeum Regalis (1685)

The PROPER VESSELS of a HUMANE TESTICLE, separated and expanded, from their most close and numerous into wider folds, for the space of a foot in length, and half a foot in breadth. Performed by Dr. Edmund King.

It is taken for granted, I think almost by every body, That Van Horne and de Graaf were the first Observers of these Vessels. But that every one may have his due, it is worth the Readers notice, That ten years before de Graaf's Book concerning the same, a Description with Figures thereof, in the Testicles both of a Boar and of a Man, were first published by Vauclius Dathirius Bonglarus, sc. in the Year 1658. Whereof also Mr. Oldenburgh hath given an account in the Philosophical Transactions. N. 42.