The heart and its muscle fibres. Engraving, 1686.

[Amsterdam] : [J. ten Hoorn], [1686]

1 print : engraving ; image 14.5 x 8.2 cm

Bears plate number: Tab. I; page number

Wellcome Collection 29485i

The first of fifty-one plates first published in Steven Blankaart's De nieuw hervormde anatomie ofte ontleding des menschen lichaams, Amsterdam 1686, with a Latin edition the following year. The plates are made up of uncredited reduced copies of previously published illustrations, several to a page. Those of the heart in plate one were taken mainly from Richard Lower's Tractatus de corde (London 1669), pl. 2, figs 1-8; pl. 5, figs 1-2. These are all in reverse of the original. Figure 3 is credited to Thomas Bartholin in the notes to this plate in James Drake's Anthropologia nova (London 1707, 2 vols), where the Blankaart plates were published in an appendix to the first volume