XIII Prologue of an Apologia in Which it is Demonstrated that the Blaesian Judge is Ignorant in Anatomy and a Slave of his Sympathies

Abstract

A book was published these days in Utrecht by Nicolas Hoboken entitled The new salivary duct of Blaes drawn into the light. If you consult the Preface, this promises to display in this book matters which can enlighten the honest reader and make him know the first discovery not so long ago of a salivary duct out of the maxilla, and this so that he can judge from these matters by what right and to what purpose Niels Stensen recently attempted by all means to claim this discovery for himself and to deny it to Blaes. If you read this book you see that it has almost the shape of a trial in which Blaes is the prosecutor, I am the prosecuted and Hoboken is the judge. Indeed it was not enough for this Hoboken to have published a letter of Blaes. He also drew the censorial rod towards a man whom he does not know and hastened to cast down a judgement on a matter which is known to him as well as to Blaes.