Author: Martin Lister

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Published: 1699

Total Pages: 328

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Lister went to Paris as the physician to Lord Portland's embassy to Paris and left this account of the city and its scientific life. The Louvre, Colbert's library, various cabinets of curiosity, food and wine, gardens, conversations with M. Dacier on the circulation of blood, as well as other places and events are detailed in this interesting travelogue with a scientific / medical bent. The plates include engravings of American species of shells and millipedes seen in Tournefort's collection."--B&L Rootenberg.