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It is the enormous favour of the immortal God and of the very majestic King that the anatomy theatre, covered with dust and silent for some years, recovers. Indeed, since I gave up my task of dissecting and demonstrating, various hindrances intervened, either by injuries of wars or by a difficult imposed peace so that they withdrew the hands of them who were most trained in it. Meanwhile, although exhausted by work at night during so many years, tired of the work given to this kind of studies, and nearly consumed by various mockeries of a temerarious fate, with the indulgence of very clement kings I, already old, would have hidden in a corner of an estate.
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Thanks to the assistance of Philip Endean S. J. I managed to translate this difficult text though the result is still my responsibility. In the list of animals dissected by Niels Stensen Caprea sylvestris appears. It might be a plant or a unicorn. At the advice of Dr. Scient. Elsebeth Hanken Thomsen, I translated it by goat. The rhetoric Latin, very difficult to translate, is by itself an homage to Niels Stensen. August Ziggelaar S. J
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Kardel, T., Maquet, P. (2018). 2.31 Invitation to the Preface Lecture. In: Nicolaus Steno. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55047-2_42
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