The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Thomas Willis (1621 - 1675)
Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29587?docPos=5 Relationships: Thomas Willis was a member of Oxford Philosophical Society (1649-1660)Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Two Extracts of the Journall of the Phil. Soc. of Oxford; one containing a Paper, communicated March 31, 1685, by the Reverend Dr Wallis, President of that Soc. concerning the strength of Memory when applied with due attention: the other, dated Dec. 15th, 1685, describing a large Stone Voided by way of Urine.
References in Documents:
NERVESLimbs and
nerous Gift of
ness (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
there, and
afterwards Physician to the
The Veins and Arteries are
so exceedingly well done, as
to shew the most curious Schemes
which
other Physitians have given us of them, are real and not
fictitious. But the Nerves have been much more
truly
and fully represented to us of late by Dr.
Dr. d)
vorum De
script. & usud) Especially as to their Inosculations,
and their admirable Distributions to the Organs of the Senses,
and the
e)
Anim. lib. 3.
c. 3.e)by the
account he gives of the Doctrine
of the Naturalists of his Time,
and before him, seems to
have been the first, who to any purpose, observed the Di
stribution of the Sanguineous
Vessels. Yet he describes them
upward. Nor makes he any
distincti
on betwixt the
even here he comes far short of that exactness which Ana
tomists
have since arrived at; as appears, upon
inspecti
on, by the TABLES above mention'd.