The anatomy of humane bodies with figures drawn after the life by some of the best masters in Europe and curiously engraven in one hundred and fourteen copper plates : illustrated with large explications containing many new anatomical discoveries and chirurgical observations : to which is added an introduction explaining the animal œconomy : with a copious index / by William Cowper.

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Title: The anatomy of humane bodies with figures drawn after the life by some of the best masters in Europe and curiously engraven in one hundred and fourteen copper plates : illustrated with large explications containing many new anatomical discoveries and chirurgical observations : to which is added an introduction explaining the animal œconomy : with a copious index / by William Cowper.
Author: Cowper, William, 1666-1709.
Publication: Oxford :: Printed at the Theater for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford ... London,; 1698.
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Subject terms: Human anatomy -- Atlases.; Human anatomy -- Early works to 1800.
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Fig. 13.

Part of the Ligamentum Ciliare view'd with a Microscope.

A A B B, The Ligamentum Ciliare consisting of Two Sorts of Fibres; the one extended thro' its whole Breadth, A A; the other end in the Mid-way B B: Between these are plac'd divers Lympheducts according to Bidloo. This Musculous Contexture of the Ligamentum Ciliare moves the Uvea, or Fore-part of the Tunica Retina composing the Iris, by which means the Inner Edge of the Iris approaches towards the Center of the Pupilla, or is re∣tracted, whereby the Pupil is enlarg'd, or diminish'd according to the different Radia∣tion of Light. In some Animals, as Cats, &c. we find a Musculous Structure in the Iris also, for a more effectual narrowing their Pupils; which Contrivance in those Creatures, perhaps, is the more requisite in regard their Horny Tunicks have a Surface not so promi∣nent in Proportion to the Bulbs of their Eyes, as those of other Animals.