Porta

(porta, a port an do, because through ‘it the blood is carried to the liver.) That part of the liver where its ve els enter. PorT# VENA. See VENA PORTE. Porta (Joseph), of Castel Nuovo, quired celebrity by his pieces in oil and in fresco. He wrote ulso some mathematical treatises, and died at Venice 1585, aged 50, Porta’ (John Baptist), a Neapolitan, eminent for his learning. As he admitted a society of learned friends into his house, he was accused of magical incantations, and exposed to the censures of Rome. He died 1515, aged 70. He imvented the camera obscura, improved afterwards by Gravesande, and formed the plan of an encyclopedia. He wrote a Latin treatise on natural magic, 8vo.; another on physiognomy, mixed with astrology, .; de oceultis hterarum not is; physiognomic a, folio, . ' Porta (Simon), or Portius, a Neapolitan, distinguished by his learning, and profe or -of philosophy at Pisa. He died at Naples 1554, aged 57. He is author of treatises de mente humand—de voluptate et dolore—de color i bus oculorum, 4to.—de rerum naturalium principi is, libri duo—opus physio log i cum, 4to, .