1630-1702 Swedish naturalist who in 1651 discovered the lymphatic system, notably that of the digestive system and the thoracic duct. The lymph system of vessels moves lymph from the tissues to the bloodstream. Rudbeck was a student of medicine at the...

Olaus Rudbeck (also known as Olof Rudbeck the Elder, to distinguish him from his son, and occasionally with the surname Latinized as Olaus Rudbeckius) (1630-1702), Swedish scientist and writer, professor of medicine at Uppsala University and for several...

Olaus Rudbeck, Sr. (1630-1702) was on the cutting edge of the careful investigation of nature which characterized the seventeenth-century scientific revolution. He also devoted a great deal of his energies to creating an elaborate history of the Swedish people that sacrificed scientific objectivity...