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The base of a human brain (the first figure in Cerebri Anatome): the circle of Willis is illustrated. Nicolaus Steno (1638–1686) commented that …the best figures of the brain up to the present are those presented to us by Willis. Reproduced by kind permission of the President and Council of The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
