====== 1705 ====== [[1704]]-[[1706]] ---- Antonio Pacchioni (1665-1726), an Italian physician, wrote extensively on the anatomy of the [[dura mater]], and provided the first written description of his eponymous [[arachnoid granulation]]s in [[1705]] in the Dissertatio Epistolaris de Glandulis Conglobatis Durae Meningis Humanae, one of his monographs ((Brunori A, Vagnozzi R, Giuffrè R. Antonio Pacchioni (1665-1726): early studies of the dura mater. J Neurosurg. 1993 Mar;78(3):515-8. PubMed PMID: 8442786. )).