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PLATNER testifies, and from this he seems to attribute this glory to our HUNDT. But in truth, although neither JACOPO BERENGARIO DA CARPI, as Boerhaave and Albinus, most famous men and ornaments of Batavia, thought (i); nor CHARLES ESTIENNE, as SCHELHAMMER seems to conjecture (k), can obtain the praise of this restoration; and therefore Stolle correctly suspected that certain tables were already more ancient than those of Carpi (l): I would not, however, wish to defraud MUNDINUS of his praise, nor attribute it all to HUNDT, with the most famous Platner (m) and he who followed him, Kestner (n). I call as a witness that which is preserved in the most excellent Library of the Magnificent and Most Ample Senate of Leipzig, Mundinus' Anatomy, amended by Pietro Morisono of Imola, and printed by Ioh. and Gregor. de Gregorio at Venice in the year 1498.

(i) see the preface to the new edition of VESALIUS' Works prefixed by them, where they attribute this glory of restored anatomical icons to Iacopo Carpi.

(k) in the Additions to Conring's Introduction Ch. IV. p. 151. and 178. but after him the same was done by the praised Goelicke, l. c. p. 60. But that such icons already existed before Estienne is sufficiently and more than sufficiently clear to those who are not strangers to the fates of anatomy. For Estienne's book appeared first in Paris 1545.

(l) in the Medical Learned History p. 410.

(m) loc. cit. on Magnus Hundt, author as it seems of anatomical tables.

(n) see his Medical Library, p. 386. and 435.