Philipp Jakob Sachs Explained

Philipp Jakob Sachs^[1] (26 August 1627 – 7 January 1672) was a German physician, naturalist, and editor of, the first ever learned journal in the field of medicine and natural history. Born in Wrocław, he later became a city physician there, and was one of the founders of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum, today the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.^[2]

His works include the 1665 Gammarologia, on crabs.

Works

• Book: Ampelographia . Leipzig . la . Jacob Trescher . 1661.

External links

• The Correspondence of Philipp Jakob Sachs von Löwenheim in EMLO
• J. Child Orthop. 2010 Apr;4(2):105-6. doi: 10.1007/s11832-009-0235-0. Epub 2010 January 12.
• Historical note: an analysis of a 17th-century illustration of a child with split hand/split foot malformation.
• Ohry A, Frydman M. In one of Philipp Jakob Sachs von Lewenhaimb's (1627-1672) books, one may find perhaps the first illustration of a child with the split hand/split foot malformation. A short historical note and some clinical genetic data are given.
• Tagungsberichte (PDF), ahf-muenchen.de
• univie.ac.at

Notes and References

1. von Löwenheim, or Lewenhaimb, Lewenheimb
2. Web site: Curriculum Vitae Philipp Jakob Sachs von Lewenhaimb . German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.