Traité du Mouvement des Animaux

Traité du Mouvement des Animaux. Par Mr Chiracq. Docteur en Médecine à Paris. A clearly written copy of the second part of Chirac's exposition of the 'De motu animalium' of Giovanni Alfonso Borelli [1608-1679], first published in Rome in 1680, 1681 in two parts. Produced in Paris.

c. 1720

1 volume 9 bl. ll. + 376 ll. + 3 bl. ll. 4to. 22 x 17 cm. Original green vellum binding. The diagrams and figures, referred to in the text, are wanting.

Purchased 1932.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Chirac left 30,000 francs in his will, half of which was for the establishment of a chair of comparative anatomy, and half for the expounding of this treatise. Both projects were unrealized, as his heirs successfully contested the will, and obtained the money for themselves.