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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++Countway Library of MedicineN009962The text, attributed to Albinus, intended to accompany his atlas of plates entitled 'Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani', which was published by the Knaptons in 1749. The second part, with a separate titlepage reading 'A compleat system of the blood-vessels and nerves', London, 1754, is the text intended to accompany 'A compleat system of the blood vessels and nerves taken from Albinus's edition of Eustachius', London, 1750. Variant: the explanation of the "Three whole length anatomical figures", 2p. preceding the 332p. sequence, is an unnumbered leaf. With a final advertisement leaf.London : printed for John and Paul Knapton, 1754. xxiv,2,332,106,[2]p. ; 4°
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