Reyna [Reina], Francisco de la

1. Dates

Born: fl

Died: 0

Dateinfo: Dates Certain

Lifespan:

2. Father

Occupation: No Information

No information on financial status.

3. Nationality

Birth: Spanish (assumed)

Career: Spanish

Death: Spanish (assumed)

4. Education

Schooling: No University

He was a veterinary surgeon; surely no higher education.

5. Religion

Affiliation: Catholic (assumed)

6. Scientific Disciplines

Primary: Physiology

A passage in his Libro de albeyteria, 1547, has been hailed as expounding the circulation of the blood nearly a century before Harvey. In fact it does not. The book was apparently very useful; it went through eleven more editions between 1552 and 1647.

7. Means of Support

Primary: Miscellaneous

A veterinary surgeon; list as miscellaneous.

8. Patronage

Type: Aristocracy

He cared for the horses of the nobility, including the Duke of Alva.

9. Technological Involvement

Type: Agriculture

Veterinary practice. Although the histories of Spanish medicine are a major source about him, and articles about him appear in journals of medical history, agriculture seems a better category than medicine.

10. Scientific Societies

Memberships: None

Sources

1. José Maria Lopez Piñero, et al., Diccionaria historico de la ciencia moderna en España, 2 vols. (Barcelona: Ediciones Peninsula, 1983). Anastasio Chincilla, Anales historicos de la medicina en general y biografico-bibliograficos de la Española en particular, 4 vols. (Valencia: Lopez et al, 1841-6), 1, 156-60.
2. Antonio Hernandez Morejon, Historia bibliografica de la medicina española, (Madrid, 1943), pp. 9-11.
3. J.J.Keevil and L.M.Page, "Francisco de la Reyna and the Circulation of the Blood," Lancet, 260 (1951), 851-3.
4. Ronald S. Wilkinson, "The First Edition of Francisco de la Reyna's Libro de albeyteria," Journal of the History of Medicine, 23 (1968), 197-9.

Not Available and Not Consulted

1. Sanz Egaña, Historia de la veterinaria española, (Madrid, 1941), pp. 112-19.
2. R. Sancho de San Roman, Estudio critico de la obra de Francisco de la Reyna, (Salamanca, 1961).

Compiled by:

Richard S. Westfall

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Indiana University

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