The nervous system. Engraving, 1686.

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

1 print : engraving ; image 14.7 x 8.3 cm

Bears plate number: Tab. XVI; page number

Wellcome Collection 29934i

The sixteenth 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. 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, the figures are described as after those published by Willis, "but very ill copy'd, wherefore the original figure is here referr'd to; see the Doctor's ninth and eleventh Tables of his Anatomy of the Brain." Thomas Willis's Cerebri anatome was first published in London in 1664