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Uppsala, Sweden

10 entries published in this place. (Uppsala, SE)

1777 CE

#13764

Bref rörande en resa til Island MDCCLXXII.

Von Troil’s compilation is the only contemporary printed book steming from Sir Joseph Banks’s pioneering scientfic expedition to Iceland, Banks's first and only expedition as indisputable leader. Having re…

1788 CE

#4304.1

Dissertatio medica descriptionem et casus aliquot osteomalaciae sistens.

In his doctoral thesis Ekman gave an account of osteogenesis imperfecta in three generations. For extensive translation see No. 4404.1. K.S. Seedorff, Osteogenesis imperfecta, Copenhagen, 1949.

1834 CE

#1993

Gymnastikens allmänna grunder.

The foundation of modern gymnastics and therapeutic massage. Ling established the Swedish school of physiotherapy with his institute for training gymnastics teachers in Stockholm in 1813. He developed the ancient Gree…

1890 CE–1930 CE

#4632

Klinische und anatomische Beiträge zur Pathologie des Gehirns. 8 pts. in 10 vols.

An important summary of the knowledge concerning aphasia appears in vols. 5-7.

1900 CE

#5945

Allgemeine Theorie der monochromatischen Aberrationen und ihre nächsten Ergebnisse für die Ophthalmologie.

The above work is the exposition of Gullstrand's general theory of monochromatic aberrations. This is an offprint from Nova Acta Reg. Soc. Sci. Ups., 1900-01, ser. 3, 20. In 1911 Gullstrand was awarded the Nobel Prize…

1930 CE

#12830

The moving boundary method of studying the electrophoresis of proteins. (Nova Acta Reg. Soc. Scient. Upsaliensis, IV, 7, No. 4.)

Tilesius's doctoral dissertation introduced the laboratory technique of moving-boundary electrophoresis, a technique for separation of chemical compounds by electrophoresis in free solution. For this work, and the wor…

1953 CE

#9243

The book of plants [Kitâb al-nabât] of Abū Hanīfa ad-Dīnawari: Part of the alphabetical section (j-i). Edited and translated by Bernhard Lewin.

1959 CE

#372.1

Andreas Vesalius's first public anatomy at Bologna, 1540. An eyewitness report by Baldasar Heseler, together with his notes on Matthaeus Curtius's lectures on Anatomia Mundini. Edited, with an introduction, translation into English and notes by Ruben Eriksson.

A unique manuscript discovery helping us to bridge the gap in the development of Vesalius’s ideas between the Tabulae anatomicae sex (1538) and the Fabrica (1543). Vesalius typically preceded his anatomical demo…

1991 CE

#8895

Le médecin et la médecine dans le théatre comique français du XVIIe siecle. (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis).

1993 CE

#7041

A history of non-printed science. A select catalogue of the Waller Collection.

Describes elements of the Waller Collection not covered in Sallander's 2-volume catalogue of the books. Erik Waller assembled the largest library of the history of medicine and science of any 20th century collector. T…