(Godfrey), author of several treatises in anatomy, was born at Amsterdam, March 12th, 1649. In 1688, he was professor of anatomy at the Hague; and, in 1694, at Leyden; when king William III. of England appointed him his physician; which he would not accept but on condition of holding his professorship, which was readily granted him. He published, in Latin, 1. The Anatomy of the human Body, demonstrated in 105 cuts, explained by the discoveries of the ancient and modern writers. 2. An Oration upon the Antiquity of Anatomy. 3. A Letter to Anthony Leeuwenhoek. Leewenhoek on the animals sometimes found in the liver of sheep and other animals. 4. Two Decades of Dissertations in Anatomy and Chirurgery; and other pieces. He died at Leyden, in April 1713.