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 21, 2025.
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Fig. 1.
The External Convext Part of the Left Scapula or Shoulder-blade.
A B, The Outside of the Scapula a little Arch'd or Convext.
C, The Spina Scapulae;
D, Its Extremity call'd Acromion, Articulated to the Extremity of the Clavicula.
E, The Processus Coracoides or Crow's-Bill-like Process, by some call'd Ancyroides or Anchor-like.
F, The Processus Brevis, or Short Process of the Shoulder-blade which receives the Head of the Arm-bone.
The Rest of the Parts which Circumscribe the Scapula, are Explain'd in the following Fi∣gure.
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