Nervous system after Vieussens (fig. 1); brain and spinal cord after Eustachius (fig. 2) Engraving by Defehrt, 1762.

[Paris] : [Briasson], [1762]

1 print : engraving ; platemark 35.1 x 22.1 cm

Anatomie. Defehrt fecit. Bears plate no. : X

K.B. Roberts, and J.D.W. Tomlinson, The fabric of the body, European traditions of anatomical illustration, Oxford 1992, pp. 194-195, pl. 46

Wellcome Collection 35476i

The plates of Eustachius were published for the first time in their entirety by G. M. Lancisi in Rome in 1714 under the title, Tabulae anatomicae. Figure 2, on the right of Diderot's plate X, appears as the central image with four other sections of the brain as plate XVIII in Lancisi's edition