Illustration from Steensen's "Canis Charcharia Dissectum Caput" (1667)
Figure by Michaelis Mercati
Illustration from Steensen's "Canis Charcharia Dissectum Caput" (1667)
Figure by Michaelis Mercati
Steensen's drawing of crystals from "De solido" (1669).
Reproduction: Hans Kermit
Steensen's drawings of the eye and brain from a shark he dissected.
Creator: Niels Steensen
Reproduction: Hans Kermit
Steensen's illustration of muscles from "Elementorum myologiae specimen"
Steensen's illustration of muscles from "Elementorum myologiae specimen"
While the guest in Innsbruck of the Grandduchess of Austria, Anna de Medici, Steensen dissected the head of a calf with hydrocephalous. This is his own drawing of it.
Steensen was the first to describe the lymph glands and the glands of the head and throat.
Figures from Steensen's article in "Acta Medica & Philosophica Hafniensis" showing the reproductive organs of (1) a hen, (2) a woman, (3) a shark, (4) a wolf.
Steensen's illustrations in his treatise on the tear glands published in 1662.
Sketch (most likely by Holger Jacobæus) of findings from Steensen's dissection of a reindeer.
