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Johann Daniel Major (16 Aug 1634 - 26 Jul 1693)

German professor of medicine, naturalist, collector and the founder of museology Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Daniel_Major Authority - early modern
Collector
 References in Documents:
Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Junior Proctor (MacGregor, ed.) 29 Lac lunæ Danielis Majoris. Nat. Hist. Oxõn. p. 58. Lac lunae of Daniel Major. Plot 1677, p. 58.
Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Junior Proctor (MacGregor, ed.) 10 Lac lunæ Danielis Majoris, from Whatley. Nat. Hist. Com. Oxõn. p. 58. Lac lunae of Daniel Major, from Wheatley. Plot 1677, p. 58.
Grew, Musaeum Regalis (1685)

The SKELETON of a PORPESS, or Sea-Hog. (b) (a) Tursio Plinii. Phocæna Rondeletii. The Description and Anatomy of the Animal is given us by Bartholine (Hist. Cent. 2.) By Mr. Ray (Phil. Trans. N. 76.) By Dan. Major (Miscel. Curios. German. An. 4.) And lately more largely by Dr. Edward Tyson. Some of the particulars more remarkable are, That the Fat, which is an inch thick, encompasseth the whole Body, as in a Hog. That the Fibers which run through the Fat from the Membrana Carnosa to the Skin, do obliquely decussate one another like a Lattice. And I may here observe, That the like Decussation is made betwixt the white and red Fibers of all Muscules.