Troels Kardel

2.34 Description of the Muscles of an Eagle

With the skin of the head, the lower extremity of a muscle was cut off, the upper extremity of which was attached to the posterior aspect of the orbit and to the adjacent bone of the skull above the orbit.

2.22 Specimen of Elements of Myology

While I publicly acknowledge that I do not at all deserve the great proofs of your favour, that does not diminish your very accurate judgment nor constitute any risk of my striving after honours. The favours of the greats disclose the generosity of the giver rather than the merits of the receiver.

1.10 Educator and Priest in Florence 1675–1677Open image in new window

We do not know by which way Stensen travelled from Holland to Florence. He may have arrived at the town on the Arno at the turn of the year 1674/16751 and, as educator of the Crown Prince, may have been attributed well-furnished lodging in the Palazzo Pitti.2 Teaching soon began, since Stensen excuses himself to Viviani for not having visited him yet and he adds: “I have the instruction to begin tomorrow at 18 o’clock my service to his Serene Highness, the Prince. Wish me all the best and pray for me so that I accomplish what God has called me for in this position.”3

2.25 Anatomical Observations Concerning the Eggs of Viviparous Animals

To confirm and light up observations of friends on the reproduction of animals from an egg, let me add to their works what divine generosity pointed out to me from the dissections of various animals concerning the eggs of the viviparous. By egg I mean not only the round vesicles full of humour which constitute a great part of the testicles but also the chorion with all its contents. I use terms which are usual for most people, the testicles of females meaning the ovaries, the uterine tubes and horns, and the uterus meaning the oviducts.

2.0 Scientific Disputation on the Subject of Hot Springs

The word “thermae” is derived from the Greek verb θέρω, “thero”, meaning I make warm, whence we obtain the adjective θeρμos, “thermos” meaning warm; hence, the waters that we now consider are called thermal because all, or at least the majority of them, have the power to warm.

2.16 A Letter on the Anatomy of the Ray

The memory of this day when, spontaneously approving the endeavours of a youth to investigate in Leiden with the very famous Sylvius, you were the first to show me the way to acquire your manifest approval, has not yet left my memory. Although the antiquity counts the ravens among the inauspicious birds, for me indeed, no dissection was ever done more auspiciously than that of an aquatic raven, since nothing would ever meet the expectations and wishes with greater profit.

2.30 Letter to the Grand Duke Cosimo III on the Grottos of Moncodeno

The grotto of Moncodeno exceeded my greatest expectations. It presented characteristics which I had never read about in other writings, and which have never occurred to me on any other occasion. Here, too, I was able to confirm by observation the view I had begun to form by a process of reason in the grotto of Gresta.

2.19 Observations on Egg and Chick

The first thing which appeared when the shell was broken at its big end was the tunica which coats the entire inner surface of the shell. It serves as a common envelope for all the parts contained in the egg. It is rough externally, smooth internally, and, towards the big end of the egg, it forms a fairly large cavity. Next to this, a second tunica has a smooth external surface and closely covers the albumen. When it is broached, the albumen flows out.

2.12 Diversity of Lymphatic Ducts

The diversity observed in dogs near the junction of the lymphatic ducts with the vena cava on the left side of the neck is found either in the branches of insertions, I, which are many here, few there, or in the small rings, K, which are completely absent in some dogs, are present in a certain number in most, are fewer in others still, sometimes narrow, sometimes fairly wide, as it appears in the figures.

1.6 In Italy 1668. The Geological Dissertation, the Prodromus on a Solid Within a Solid

On December 8, 1667, Stensen, after renewing his taking of the Catholic confession, received the sacrament of confirmation from Nuncio Trotti. Immediately afterwards he received the order from King Frederik III to return to Denmark and soon after, the chamberlain of the Grand Duke, Bruno della Molara, communicated to Stensen the court’s intention to depart on Sunday after lunch for its usual winter move to Pisa, adding that this could be discussed in more detail in the palace at midnight.