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Proceedings SNO “LXI Congresso Nazionale SNO”
Figura 7. From Caspar Bartholin, Institutiones Anatomicae,
1611.
Figura 6. From Fabrici, Tabulae Pictae, 1600.
Nervorum deals with the nervous system and con-
tains the only known illustrations regarding neu-
roanatomy. It consists of 21 tables preserved in the
Marciana Library in Venice. Despite the realization
of this splendid collection, neither a systematic de-
scription nor an iconographic record regarding nerv-
ous structures were found to be published by Fabrici.
In these Tabulae Fabrici shows the first representa-
tion of lateral sylvian fissure, where the convolutions
are depicted with detailed realism (Figure 6), 40
years earlier the drawing and description by CASPAR
BARTHOLIN (1655-1738) in his Institutiones Anato-
micae (Figure 7).
IULIUS CASSERIUS (1552-1616) illustrated the arach-
noid for the first time in his anatomical atlas De
Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Decem published in
1627. He depicts a membrane adjacent to and com-
pletely enveloping the brain, obviously the pia mem-
brane, but also a second membrane, the arachnoid,
stretched over the gyri but did not dip into the sulci
(Figure 8). Figura 8 From Casserio, Tabulae Anatomicae LXXIIX, 1627.
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