Volcher Coiter
Volcher Coiter (or Coyter or Koyter ), born in 1534 with Groningen and dead the 1576 in France, a Doctor and Naturalist Dutch.
Pupil of Aldrovandi, one knows little thing of the life of Coiter if not which it is interested in the anatomy and physiology. It is possible that it studied near Leonhart Fuchs with Tübingen.
Between 1562 and 1566, it teaches the Logique and the Chirurgie with Bologna where, before, it had followed the courses of Ulisse Aldrovandi. In 1566, it is stopped by the Inquisition to be itself converted with the Réforme and remains imprisoned during one year. Between 1566 and 1569, it is used the Margrave Louis VI of Palatinat for Amberg. Of 1569 with 1576, he is doctor with Nuremberg. It is probable that it is Rudolf Jakob Camerarius which finds this station to him. In 1575, the margrave the recruiting as doctor during a military program against the France, countryside during which he dies.
Its observations on the development of the embryo of the Poulet are famous: it of described the evolution, day after day, until the blossoming. It describes the genitals of the woman in Externarum and Internarum Principalium Humani Corporis of 1573.
It makes the observation that fabric portions of the heart coldly taken continued to beat during a certain time. It also notes that in fact the parts at the base of the heart beat longest. It is undoubtedly the first to describe this phenomenon.
It is the first to make embryology a discipline with whole share.
Coiter studies much the anatomy of the birds and publishes good drawings of the skeletons of crane, of Cormoran, Perroquet and Green woodpecker. Its writings show that Coiter knows the behavior of the birds well.
| Random links: | Louis Denise | Kick | Motorola RAZR V3 | My wife is a witch | Charles Augustus Young | Banlieue_noire_de_Bruce,_comté_de_Macomb,_Michigan |