Excerpt from A Series of Engravings, Representing the Bones of the Human Skeleton, Vol. 1: With the Skeletons of Some of the Lower Animals Having formed his resolution, and cherishing a wish to produce, at the same time, something that was new, he procured a Work that was very little known, at least to anatomists, in this country, - a compilation, published at Rome in 1696, -by domenico de Rossr, chiefly for the use of sculptors and painters. Many of the plates in that Work are excellent, accompanied with explanatory notes in Italian, borrowed from the eminent anatomist lancisi. Having engraved some figures of this Work, he brought them to me, to know how far I approved of his plan. Upon seeing the Work, I told him frankly, that however much its figures might be calculated to suit the ideas of the painter and sculptor, they were certainly too limited in number to answer the greater variety of ends which anatomists have in viewz'that if he wished to begin with the bones, and illustrate any Anatomical Work upon that subject, there was no Work of the kind which I knew (and I knew many), that, upon the whole, Was better entitled to the perusal and serious attention of the young anatomist than that of -mon.ro: that a French translation of that Work, in large folio, had been published at Paris in 17 59, by the celebrated sue, accompanied with engravings of every bone in the4. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.