Myographia nova: or, a graphical description of all the muscles in [the] humane body as they arise in dissection. Distributed into six lectures ... Together with a philosophical and mathematical account of the mechanism of muscular motion, and an accurate ... discourse of the heart and its use, with the circulation of the blood, &c. ... / by R. Lower.

  • Browne, John, 1642-approximately 1700
Date:
1698
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Myographia nova: or, a graphical description of all the muscles in [the] humane body as they arise in dissection. Distributed into six lectures ... Together with a philosophical and mathematical account of the mechanism of muscular motion, and an accurate ... discourse of the heart and its use, with the circulation of the blood, &c. ... / by R. Lower. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    — TKnow it lias more than once been difputed, whether an Author may: be allow’d a Competent Judge of his Own Writings • and that tho* as to the Building and Contrivance, he may be in the right?' (that being the Employment of his Own Genius') yet the Orna- mental part thereof, as it is the Brat of Fancy•, receives but a very fmall mealure, if any at all, (either as to its own Merits or Failures) from the Judgment. And fince I every where find, that he is not to be accounted an Un¬ profitable Member of a Common weal, by whofe Gare and Study others may be rais’d, and enlarge on the lame Subject with much more Perfedion : And tho* I may come abroad once more with an Ayr not agreeable to all Humours (well knowing that it s eafier to divert than pleafe) the firfl darling like Flajhes fir iking on the Fancy, whilft the other more readily yields to the Severity of Judgment and Cenfure: Yet in this I am fatisfied, as I have not Concern enough in me to write any thing in my own be¬ half, or defence, folhall I not ftudy the Gratification or Itch of any Ad¬ versary whatfoever. And tho’I am readily convinc’d, that the beft of Authors may fometimes miftake, after his greateft Care and Study, yet I do by no means think him the better Man, that makes this an Advantage for carping at him*- Altho’ I muff confefs, we live in an Age fo critical, and fo fevere, that even the SofteH Ayrs are unpleafant to fome forts of People, and very harjh and untunable to the Ears of others. And fince I am well fatisfied, that it has been my Misfortune to meet with fome Enemies of the Plaifler-lox, who with no fmall Confidence have fpread abroad, (ia hopes of doing me an Injury) that I am not Mafter of that which I print under my own Hand and Name: Yet I can tell them, tho’ I may want Wit and Parts to illuflrate my Writings, as fome Men may do, yet I have more Honefty than to impofe upon the Publick, or break into any Man’s Province without his Leave; in that where-ever I have made ufe of any Author in this my Difcourfe, I have nam’d him ' either in the Elenchus or Defer ip t ion, or in my Obfervations, where there have been moft occafion to mention him. And fince nothing but a Command, which I could not reafonably dif- obey, could have given me frefh Courage of coming abroad with this LaH Edition of Mufcles, .1 could not think my Duty fully paid, till I had comply’d with the Defires of thofe Venerable, as well as Learned Meny who have engag’d me in it. And tho’ in its felf, I am well fatisfied, it may carry but little Merit to fecure it from the fnarling of Criticks, (with whom it’s as natural to bark as to breath) yet being under the Umbrage of fo Impartial Judges, I think both it apd my felf happily Jhelter d by thofe, who befl underhand whether it carries any Intrinfick V^alue in it, or not. (aj tU-