ROBERG, LARS.

Dissertatio Medico-Physica de Formicarum Natura.... Praeside.... (Respondens:) Daniel Lindewall.

Upsala, Wernerianis, 1719. Small 4to. No wrappers as issued. Remains of a backstrip. (4),16 pp. Last leaf with a dampstain in lower right corner and some old annotations on last page. Lower right corner of last leaf torn, no loss of letters.

Originaltrykket af Roberg's, noget fantasifulde, afhandling om myrerne. "... i Indien finnas myror af räfvars storlek, hvilka hopsamla guldsand och med sådan ursinnighet försvara dessa sina skatter, att de t.o.m. kunna döda människor, som försöka plundra dem."(Bjørn Dal "Sveriges zoologiska litteratur 1483-1920", p. 27-28).

Roberg became a professor of Medicine at Uppsala University in 1697 and retained the chair until 1740. He founded the Nosocomium academicum, the later Uppsala Academic Hospital, in 1708. - Lars Roberg was the teacher of Carl Linnaeus and Peter Artedi, among others.

Waller: 8036.

Order-nr.: 45707