The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Fabritius Bartoletus ( - )

References in Documents:
Grew, Musaeum Regalis (1685)

All the Principal VEINS, ARTERIES, and NERVES, both of the Limbs and Viscera. The generous Gift of John Evelyn Esquire. He bought them at Padoa, where he saw them with great industry and exactness (according to the best method then used) taken out of the body of a Man, and very curiously spread upon four large TABLES, whereon they are now preserved. The Work of Fabritius Bartoletus then Vestingius's Assistant there, and afterwards Physician to the King of Poland.