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51.B. Sixth Edition, 1897. H. K. Lewis : London, pp. 608, large post 8vo. 10s. 6tf. This well known text-book lias achieved such a secure position that little criticism is necessary in noting its sixth edition. It is now printed on thinner paper than formerly with the result that the matter in it has increased, while the bulk has not. A. few of the illustrations have also been omitted, and the ...

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VESALIUS' ILLUSTRATION of the 'sixth pair' of cranial nerves in the De Humani Corporis Fabrica shows the sympathetic trunk arising as a branch of the vagus in a position corresponding to the top of the thorax (see fig. 1). The text is the verbal equivalent of the illustration. Although of all Vesalius' work, the cranial nerves are perhaps the most open to criticism,' this error remained uncorre...

work has been harmonised by the two editors, so that it appears like the effort of a single writer. The entire book (we are told in the preface) has been submitted in proof-sheets to all of the authors for mutual criticism and revision; it may therefore be said to express upon important surgical topics the consensus of opinion of the surgeons who have joined in its preparation. Many of the illu...

Composers working with text-based software synthesis languages (such as the “Music N” languages) tend to produce rich documentation of their compositional process as a byproduct of their work. This evidence, in the form of custom programs and synthesis specifications, documents the technical means of a work’s realization; insights into the composer’s creative process may be extended if multiple...

Stemmatology studies relations among different variants of a text that has been gradually altered as a result of imperfectly copying the text over and over again. Underlying these variants there is what we could call a ‘family tree’, a graph representing the process of copying the text where each new version becomes a direct descendant of the exemplar(s) from which it is copied. The aim of stem...