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VAROLIO, Costanzo (1543 – 1575)

VAROLIO, Costanzo (1543 – 1575)

1543 – 1575

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Mike Hayes, artwork by Varolius ca. 1572 · Ludwig Chulant, (1852), History and Bibliography of Anatomic Illustration. (Translated from the German by Mortimer Frank), University of Chicago Press, digitized by Google from a copy owned by New York Public Library · Public domain

1573 CE

#1377.2

De nervis opticis nonnulisque aliis praeter communem opinionem in humano capite observatis.

Varolio described a new method of dissection which enabled him to observe and describe the pons for the first time. By this new method Varolio was able to make some contributions to the knowledge of the course and ter…