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A28162	The coppy of a certain large act (obligatory) of Tonker Lovis de Bils, Lord of Koppensdamme, Bonen, &c. touching the skill of a better way of anatomy of mans body.; Kopye van zekere ampele acte. English. 1659	Bils, Lodewijk de, 1624-1670.	1659 (1659)	Wing B2914; ESTC R23696	5,772	27

THE COPPY Of a certain Large Act Obligatory OF YONKER LOVIS de Bils Lord of Koppensdamme Bonen c. Touching the Skill of a better way of ANATOMY of MANS BODY Printed in low Dutch at Rotterdam in the Printing-house of John Naeranus a Book-seller at the sign of the Book-binder in the street called Het Steiger LONDON 1659. To my much esteemed Friend Samuel Hartlib the Elder Esq SIR YOur desires were wont to tend so much to the Publick good that your Virtuosi would think I wanted Philanthropy as well as Civility if I should refuse to comply with such as your Letter brings me I send you therefore the Propositions of Monsieur de Bils Englishéd out of low Dutch at my request by such a Person as you will readily think can translate very well though he can better write things worthy to be translated when I shall have told you that his name is Mr. Pell The design avow'd to be aim'd at in the Propositions and much more the matter of Fact without which they might appeare extravagant made the Print I confesse very welcome to me For though in some Papers I formerly told you of I had mentioned divers things I had intended to try and some that I had already observ'd in order to the preservation of Animal substances and the making some of them more durable Subjects for the Anatomist to deal with yet besides that most of the ways I proposed to my self were as yet little more then bare Designes I never aim'd at and scarce so much as hop'd for such strange things as in this Paper the ingenuous Publisher of it tells us he hath already actually performed And therefore I suppose that it will not be unwelcome to you if not having had the opportunity to see the effect of this Gentleman's skill my self and being sufficiently indisposed to believe or affirme any strange thing that I have not seen I annex the other Paper you lately desir'd of me I mean that wherein the Proposers Dutch print came inclos d to me from the Hague For besides that it containes something of Particular it comes from a French Gentleman whose Testimonie may well be considerable in matters of this nature for he is one of that select Society of Parisian Philosophers of which You and I have sometimes discoursed and you will finde a celebrating mention made of him in the life of Gassendus whose Friend and Disciple he was And his curiosity leading him to imitate divers of the old Greek Philosophers who travail'd through many Countreys only to enrich themselves with what knowledge they could meet with in them he went purposely to visit Monsieur de Bils soon after he had left England which he lately travers'd and in his passage honour'd me with severall of his visits I am so willing that You should be as wary as I in admitting unlikely things into your belief that in putting the French I received into English I have been purposely to avoid straining his expressions more careful to do right to his Words then to his Style And as for those things that appear to have been left out by me they are some of them such matters as concern not our Proposer and others but such Complements as require rather my Blushes then my Translating The consent you desire of me to publish the Proposalls in our Language I must not refuse you For 't is the least we owe to a Person that hath endeavour'd to oblige mankinde and to those that are willing to encourage such endeavours by acquainting the ingenuous here with his Propositions to strive to procure him Subscribers and to afford them the opportunity of encouraging and assisting so useful a Work as This supposing the truth of the Historical part of the Paper is like to prove It may also be hop'd that the noise of such Discoveries abroad will rouse up our ingenuous Men at home and excite them to endeavour to emulate if not surpasse them and to keep up that reputation for Anatomical discoveries and skill that this Nation hath of late deservedly enjoy'd Nor will it be amiss by the same means to give as many of those in Authority as may happen to read what the States of Holland have done in favour of a Stranger occasion to take notice what countenance neighbouring Magistrates that are not thought unpolitick neither are forward to give to those designs that aime at the advancement of Reall Learning Which may perhaps invite those that can do it to give encouragement to the English Wits which I am groundedly confident want nothing but encouragement to perform things in this kinde that would really advantage the publick as well as highly gratifie such persons as Mr. Hartlib and his Affectionate humble Servant R. B. Octob. the 13. 1659. The Copy of a certain large Act of Yonker L. de Bils Lord of Koppensdam Bonen c. Touching the skill of a better way of Anatomy of mans Body THis day being the 26. day of May 1659. before the Witnesses here-under named and me Leonard Van Zyl a Publick Notary admitted by the Court of Holland and residing in Rotterdam there appeared Yonker Louiis de Bils Lord of Koppensdamme Bonen c. Bailliu of the City and Territory of Aardenburg And he declared as he also doth further declare uprightly by this Writing that although he the said Gentleman having given to the famous University of Leiden divers Anatomical pieces of his own work had resolved to trouble himselfe no more with Anatomy and accordingly had done nothing in it for fourteen years together Yet he hath now taken up the contrary resolution because of the earnest intreaties of divers famous learned and judicious men both of this Countrey and of forraigne parts as also because of that favourable permission and Granut whereby the High-Mighty Lords the States Generall of the United Netherlands have given him power to take all the Bodies of those that shall be executed by the hand of justice whether Military or Civil as also of those strangers that shall die in the Hospitals in ill parts belonging to the said States General and to dissect the said Carkases in such manner as himself shall think good for the satisfying his own Curiosity and the promoting of Knowledge for the Common good Being also further incouraged by the convenient place for an Anatomical Theater in that house which was lately the Court of the English Merchants in this City which house the Honourable Lords the Governours of Rotterdam have favourably granted him to that end He the said Gentleman hath now at last resolved and begun to set up a meerly new Anatomy of the body of Man by many dead Bodies dissected and embalmed in an extraordinary manner in which bodies shall be shewn all the Veins Arteries Sinews and Fibres severed from one another but remaining fast both where they first arise and where they end Also the Heart Liver Lungs and Entrals Eyes and Brains shall remain manifest in