Mikrokosmographia a description of the body of man. Together vvith the controuersies thereto belonging. Collected and translated out of all the best authors of anatomy, especially out of Gasper Bauhinus and Andreas Laurentius. By Helkiah Crooke Doctor of Physicke, physitian to His Maiestie, and his Highnesse professor in anatomy and chyrurgerie. Published by the Kings Maiesties especiall direction and warrant according to the first integrity, as it was originally written by the author.
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Mikrokosmographia a description of the body of man. Together vvith the controuersies thereto belonging. Collected and translated out of all the best authors of anatomy, especially out of Gasper Bauhinus and Andreas Laurentius. By Helkiah Crooke Doctor of Physicke, physitian to His Maiestie, and his Highnesse professor in anatomy and chyrurgerie. Published by the Kings Maiesties especiall direction and warrant according to the first integrity, as it was originally written by the author.
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Crooke, Helkiah, 1576-1635.
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[London] :: Printed by William Iaggard dwelling in Barbican, and are there to be sold,
1615.
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Human anatomy -- Early works to 1800.
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"Mikrokosmographia a description of the body of man. Together vvith the controuersies thereto belonging. Collected and translated out of all the best authors of anatomy, especially out of Gasper Bauhinus and Andreas Laurentius. By Helkiah Crooke Doctor of Physicke, physitian to His Maiestie, and his Highnesse professor in anatomy and chyrurgerie. Published by the Kings Maiesties especiall direction and warrant according to the first integrity, as it was originally written by the author." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19628.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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QVEST. XXI. Of the Organs of the Sences.
THE Organ or Instrument of the Sence as Aristotle witnesseth in the 122. text of his second booke de Anima, is that wherein the power and force of per∣ceiuingis seated. And this Instrument is the eye in the sight, in the hearing the eares, in the smelling the nosthrils, in the taste the tongue; and for the touch, though all the skin yet especially that of the hand. But yet the ver∣tue or faculty of sensation doth not reside in the whole Organ, but in some certaine simi∣lar particle, of which kinde is the Cristaline humor in the eye, the nerue of hearing dilated in the Eare, the mamillary processes in the Smell, the proper flesh or pulpe of the Tongue in the Taste, and in the Touch the true skin; the other parts of the Organs assist this par∣ticle, keeping it as it were in tune, or preseruing the harmony thereof from the offence and incursion of outward iniuries; for otherwise this sweete musicke, consent and propor∣tion, would by the ouer-vehement force and change wrought by excessiue obiects be de∣stroyed, which concordance being broken there can be no sensation.
And thus much shall suffice to be spoken of the Sences in generall; we will entreate more at large of the particular Sences in their proper places, where also wee will note some things concerning their Organs which will be worthy your obseruation. And first of the Sight according to the order we before obserued in our Anatomicall History.