Memoir's for a natural history of animals containing the anatomical descriptions of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris / Englished by Alexander Pitfeild ... ; to which is added an account of the measure of a degree of a great circle of the earth, published by the same Academy and Englished by Richard Waller ...
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- Memoir's for a natural history of animals containing the anatomical descriptions of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris / Englished by Alexander Pitfeild ... ; to which is added an account of the measure of a degree of a great circle of the earth, published by the same Academy and Englished by Richard Waller ...
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- Perrault, Claude, 1613-1688.
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- London :: Printed by Joseph Streater and are to be sold by T. Basset, J. Robinson, B. Aylmer, Joh. Southby, and W. Canning,
- 1688.
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- Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works.
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"Memoir's for a natural history of animals containing the anatomical descriptions of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris / Englished by Alexander Pitfeild ... ; to which is added an account of the measure of a degree of a great circle of the earth, published by the same Academy and Englished by Richard Waller ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50576.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 24, 2025.
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Page 132
The Explication of the Figure of the CORMORANT.
IN the Lower Figure is observable the length of the Head, the smalness of the Eye, and its oblique Situation, the crooked Figure of the Bill, and the extraordinary Structure of the Feet which have the great Toe outwards, and the others inwards, being all four webb'd together by Membranes.
In the Upper Figure.
- A B.
- Represents the Oesophagus blown up, and tied at the top.
- B C.
- The Ventricle blown up.
- B.
- The place where the Oesophagus is straitned to make the upper Orifice of the Ventricle.
- D E.
- The Aspera Arteria.
- E.
- A knot made of a Bony Ring at the bottom of the Aspera Arteria.
- F F.
- Two Musculous Ligaments which do fasten the Aspera Arteria with the Blad∣ders of the Lungs.
- G.
- The Heart.
- H.
- The right Lobe of the Liver.
- I.
- The left Lobe.
- K.
- The third Lobe, which is under the two others.
- L.
- The Gall-Bladder.
- M.
- The Pylorus.
- N.
- A part of the Oesophagus, the inside of which is represented.
- O.
- The Superiour Orifice of the Ventricle.
- P.
- A part of the Ventricle which is seen on the inside.
- q q.
- The Membranes of the Ventricle cut asunder, the interiour of which is compo∣sed of an infinite number of longish Glands conglomerated, and whose points do make the internal Superficies of the Ventricle rough like Chagrin.
- Q.
- The Larynx.
- R.
- The Tongue.
- S T.
- The right Foot.
- T.
- The Serrate or toothed Claw which is on the second Toe.
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