TYSON, Edward (1650 – 1708)
1650 – 1708
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source Edmund Lilly (1680-1716) · Royal College of Physicians, London Art UK · Public domain
1683 CE
#2448
Lumbricus teres, or some anatomical observations on the round worm bred in human bodies.
Tyson gave one of the first descriptions of the anatomy of Ascaris lumbricoides.
1699 CE
#153
Orang-outang, sive homo sylvestris: Or, the anatomy of a pygmie compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man.
The earliest work of importance in comparative morphology. Tyson compared the anatomy of man and monkeys and between the two he placed the chimpanzee, which he regarded as the typical pygmy. This was the origin of the…