Facets

1555 CE

#377

De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.

Containing Vesalius’s final published revisions of the text, this edition is also superior for its enlarged format, improved typography and printing, better paper, larger woodcut initials, and changes to the let…

1658 CE

#1825

De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica libri quatuordecim.

This is an extensively revised and enlarged second edition of Piso’s Historia naturalis Brasiliae (1648). In this edition Piso reprinted Bontius's De medicina Indorum (1642) with two additional books on Asian fl…

1869 CE

#9473

De l'espèce et de la classification en zoologie. Traduction de l'anglais par Félix Vogeli. Édition revue et agumentée par l'auteur.

While Agassiz often wrote in general terms regarding his virulent opposition to Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, he provided his scientific rationale for that opposition only in an appendix to the Fr…

1824 CE

#145.56

De l’influence des agens physiques sur la vie.

Edwards studied the influence of environmental factors on animal life, concluding that vital processes depend on external physical and chemical forces but are not entirely controlled by them. The work includes an acco…

1700 CE

#2448.2

De la géneration des vers dans le corps de l’homme.

The first medical parasitology text– an exhaustive study of the parasites of man, the diseases associated with them and their treatment. Andry’s views were often ahead of his time. Unlike most of his conte…

1669 CE

#6613

De medicis poetis dissertatio.

1835 CE

#602

De phaenomeno generali et fundamentali motus vibratorii contini in membranis.

Classical paper on ciliary epithelial motion. Reprinted in Purkynĕ’s Opera omnia (No. 82), pp. 277-371, 1918. English translation in Dublin J. med. chem. Sci., 1835, 7, 279-84.

1559 CE

#378.1

De re anatomica libri xv.

Colombo was a pupil of Vesalius, and succeeded him in the chair of anatomy at Padua before proceeding to chairs first at Pisa and later at Rome. His book, published just after his death, rectified a number of anatomic…

1985 CE

#7607

De wasmodellen van Petrus Koning. Achtergrondinformatie over en beschrijvende catalogus van de wasmodellen door Petrus Konig uit de collecties van het Anatomisch Museum, van de Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht.

Annotated catalogue of wax models made by Konig; summary in English.

2010 CE

#7656

Death defied: The anatomy lessons of Frederik Ruysch. Translated by Diane Webb.

2000 CE

#8676

Defining features: Scientific and medical portraits, 1660-2000.

2003 CE

#10233

Deforesting the earth: From prehistory to global crisis.

This work, which was heralded as a masterwork of scholarship when published, originally consisted of 689pp. In 2006 the publishers issued "an abridgment" to make the work accessible to a "general readership." The abri…

1833 CE

#12866

Dentologia, a poem on the diseases of the teeth and their proper remedies. With notes, practical, historical, illustrative, and explanatory, by Eleazar Parmly.

Brown founded the first US dental school, the first US national dental society, called The American Association of Dental Surgeons, and the first US dental journal, entitled the American Journal and Library of Dental …

1976 CE

#11104

Deoxyribonucleic acid polymerase from the extreme thermophile Thermus aquaticus.

The authors showed that the heat resistant bacteria Thermus aquaticus discovered by Thomas Brock contained a vital polymerase enzyme that had evolved in this bacteria to allow it to metabolize and survive in exception…

1900 CE

#8740

Der Arzt und die Heilkunst in der deutschen Vergangenheit.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1890 CE

#125

Der Heliotropismus der Thiere und seine Uebereinstimmung mit dem Heliotropismus der Pflanzen.

Loeb founded the theory of “tropisms” as the basis of the psychology of the lower forms of life. English translation in Loeb’s Studies in general physiology, Vol. 1, 1-88. Chicago, 1905.

1852 CE

#115

Der Kreislauf des Lebens.

This work attacked Liebig’s theories, although courteously. Moleschott, a Dutch physiologist, evolved a purely materialistic conception of the world. He considered life a magnificent metabolic process, and thoug…

1909 CE

#12426

Der Lymphozyt als gemeinsame Stammzelle der verschiedenen Blutelemente in der embryonalen Entwicklung und im postfetalen Leben der Säugetiere.

Maximow developed and introduced a unitarian theory of hematopoiesis, a theory upon which the modern concept of blood cells' origin and differentiation is based. He introduced the term "stem cell." Translated into Eng…

1917 CE

#7494

Der Vierfarbendruck in der Gefolgschaft Jacob Christoffel Le Blons mit Oeuvre-Verzeichnissen der Familie Gautier-Dagoty, J. Roberts, J. Ladmirals und C. Lasinios

1998 CE

#13977

Derivation of pluripotent stem cells from cultured human primordial germ cells.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Shamblott, Axelman,... Gearheart. Gearheart led the team that successfully developed human embryonic germ cells, pluripotent stem cells derived from primordial germ cel…

1970 CE

#13730

Dermatologie in der Kunst.

2009 CE

#13029

Dermatology for skin of color.

"... the first comprehensive reference for this subspecialty, ranging from the historic and cultural to the clinical and basic science components....More than 600 full-color photographs of preoperative and postoperati…

1541 CE

#373.1

Des aller fürtrefflichsten…erschaffen. Das is des menchen…warhafftige beschreibung oder Anatomi…

This plagiarism of Vesalius’s Tabulae anatomicae sex contains 25 woodcuts by Hans Baldung Grien (1484/1485-1545), and represents the artist’s only contribution to medical illustration. The woodcuts include…

1858 CE

#12256

Des appareils l'electriques des poissons l'electriques. 2 vols. (Text and atlas).

Digital facsimile of the text from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1855 CE–1856 CE

#10884

Des caractères anatomiques des grands singes pseudo-anthropomorphes.

With 16 lithographed plates, this continues to be one of the most frequently cited of all works in the history of primate anatomy.

1787 CE

#13908

Descripcion de diferentes piezas de historia natura, las mas del ramo maritimo.

The first scientific book printed in Cuba. The striking illustrations are by the author's son, and depict fish, turtles, and crustacieans observed along the Cuban shoreline. The final section contains three alarming i…

1787 CE

#8026

Descripcion de diferentes piezas de historia natural las mas del ramo maritimo.

This catalogue of Carrbean fish was the first scientific treatise printed in Cuba and also the first illustrated book printed in Cuba. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1844 CE

#11526

Descriptiones animalium quae in itinere ad Maris Australis Terras per annos 1772, 1773 et 1774 suscepto

Forster was the naturalist on James Cook's second Pacific voyage, during which he was accompanied by his son Georg. His Descriptiones animalium was completed within a month of returning to England with Cook, but remai…

1854 CE

#13865

Descriptive catalogue of the fossil organic remains of Reptilia and Pisces contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1908 CE

#12276

Design in nature illustrated by spiral and other arrangements in the inorganic and organic kingdoms as exemplified in matter, force, life, growth, rhythms, &c., especially in crystals, plants, and animals. 3 vols.

"Illustrated by nearly two thousand figures, mostly original and from nature." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2003 CE

#14300

Design of a novel globular protein fold with atomic-level accuracy.

Called, "the breakthrough in computational de novo protein design." This was the proof of concept paper that computers and AI could be used to predict protein structures accurately and much faster than with convention…

1970 CE

#12066

Dickens and medicine: An exhibition of books, manuscripts and prints to mark the centenary of his death; with an introduction and bibliography.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1979 CE

#11028

Dickens's doctors.

1929 CE

#9987

Die Ärƶtlichen Kenntnisse in Ilias und Odyssee.

Medical knowledge in the Iliad and Odyssey. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1877 CE

#145.61

Die Auster und die Austernwirtschaft.

In this study of oyster culture precipitated by the impoverishment of natural oyster beds, Möbius provided the earliest description of a marine animal community maintained in a state of equilibrium by limitations…

1885 CE

#231

Die Bedeutung der Zellenkerne für die Vorgänge der Vererbung.

Along with Roux, Kölliker stated that hereditary characters were transmitted by the cell nucleus.

1881 CE

#502

Die Coelomtheorie. Versuch einer Erklärung des mittleren Keimblattes.

The Hertwig brothers formulated the “coelom” theory to account for the classification and phylogeny of metazoan animals. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1890 CE

#126

Die Elementarorganismen und ihre Beziehungen zu den Zellen.

Mitochondria described, p. 145.

1912 CE

#8153

Die Entstehung der Kontinente.

Wegener originated the theory of continental drift in this paper on the origin of continents, which he conceived after being struck by the apparent correspondence in the shapes of the coastlines on the west and east s…

1951 CE

#356.2

Die Entwicklung Der Ornithologie von Aristoteles bis zur Gegenwart.

Revised English translation by H. and C. Epstein, ed. by G. Cottrell, as Ornithology from Aristotle to the present, with a foreword and an epilogue on American ornithology by Ernst Mayr. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard Univ…

1874 CE

#120

Die Gastraea-Theorie, die phylogenetische Classification des Thierreichs und die Homologie der Keimblätter.

Haeckel’s gastraea theory, which considers the two-layered gastrula the ancestral form of multicellular animals.

1906 CE–1954 CE

#9393

Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. The Macrolepidoptera of the world: A systematic description of the known Macrolepidoptera. 16 vols. plus 4 supplements. Written and edited by Adalbert Seitz.

Published in French, German and English. The first 4 vols. describe the Palaearctic fauna and vols. 5–16 describe the exotic fauna (Volums 1–4, Palaearctic fauna, with 4 supplements; Vols. 5–8, Ameri…

1897 CE

#11094

Die histochemischen und physiologischen Arbeiten. 2 vols.

In a letter to his uncle, the embryologist, Wilhelm His, written on December 17, 1892, and first published in this collected edition, Miescher described a kind of genetic code. He remarked how "some of the large molec…

1922 CE

#9985

Die homerische Medizin. Eine medizin-kulturhistorische Skizze.

Medicine in Homer.

1838 CE

#111

Die Infusionsthierchen als vollkommene Organismen. 1 vol. and atlas of 64 hand-colored engraved plates.

In this monumental work in folio format Ehrenberg extended Otto Friedrich Müller’s bacteriological classification. Like Müller, he made no distinction between protozoa and bacteria, classing them both …

1905 CE

#6619

Die Karikatur und Satire in der Medizin.

An encyclopedic collection of medical wit and caricature of all ages. Second edition, 1921.

1859 CE–1969 CE

#334

Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs, wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild.

This great systematic work, begun by Bronn, was continued by other naturalists. It deals with both recent and fossil zoology. Bronn wrote the volumes dealing with Amorphozoa, Actinozoa, and Malacozoa, published 1859-1…

1903 CE

#6608

Die Medizin in der klassischen Malerei.

4th edition, 1950 (a re-impression of 3rd edition, 1923).

1740 CE–1761 CE

#9561

Die monatlich-herausgegeben Insecten-Belustigung. 4 vols.

Spectacular hand-colored plates."Insecten-Belustigung, appeared in 1740 and was devoted to the insects and other invertebrates like the sea anemones. His classification of the insects followed a natural system and he …

1972 CE

#12526

Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam.(Handbuch der Orientalistik, 1. Abteilung, Ergänzungsband VI, 2).

Concerns zoology, botany, mineralogy, alchemy, astrology, magic, agriculture, the largest section being devoted to alchemy.