BLASIUS, Gerard "Gerrit" Leendertszoon [Blaes] (162 – 1682)
162 – 1682
4 entries in the GMN corpus.
1666
#1354.9
Anatome medullae spinalis, et nervorum.
The first separate work on the spinal cord. Blasius “illustrated the separate origin of the anterior and posterior roots, the dorsal root ganglia and the differentiation between the gray and white matter of the spinal…
1667 –1673
#292.1
Observationes anatomicae selectiores. [Part II: Observationum anatomicarum… pars altera]. 2 vols.
The only publications of one of the earliest scientific societies, active from 1664 to 1672. Founded by Gerard Blaes, and numbering Jan Swammerdam among its members, the college devoted itself to comparative anatomica…
1673
#9676
Miscellanea anatomica, hominis, brutorumque variorum, fabricam diversam magna parte exhibentia.
The "first comprehensive manual of comparative anatomy based on the original and literary researches of a working anatomist. Blasius's observation on human anatomy are followed by eighty five pages devoted to the anat…
1681
#296
Anatome animalium, terrestrium variorum, volatilium, aquatilium, serpentum, insectorum, ovorumque, structuram naturalem, ex veterum, recentiorum, propriisque observationibus proponens, figuris variis illustrata.
“The first comprehensive manual of comparative anatomy based on the original and literary researches of a working anatomist” (Cole). Blaes anticipated Cowper in finding the Cowper’s glands, which he illustrated in his…