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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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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Cowper, William, 1666-1709.
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Oxford :: Printed at the Theater for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford ... London,
1698.
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Human anatomy -- Atlases.
Human anatomy -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34837.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 19, 2025.

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Fig. 2.

A A, The Back Part of the Longitudinal Si∣nus opened, together with the Lateral One on the Left Side.

B B, The Os Occipitis broken off and turn'd down.

C, The Os Petrosum.

D, The Orifice of the Fourth Sinus, call'd Tor∣cular Herophili, at the Conjunction of the Two La∣teral Sinus's with the Longitudinal One.

E, Divers transverse strong Ligaments in the Lateral Sinus.

F F, The Orifices of the Veins of the Brain in the Longitudinal Sinus.

G G, That Part of the Dura Mater, which ad∣hered to the Lamdoidal Suture of the Skull.

H, The Medulla Oblongata going out of the great Foramen of the Skull, in the Os Occipitis.

I, The Cerebellum cover'd with the Dura Mater.

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