Incus Berengario da Carpi in his "Commentaria super anatomia Mundini" (1521). Andreas Vesalius, in his "De humani corporis fabrica", was the first to compare the second element of the ossicles to an anvil, thereby giving it the name "incus". The final part of the long limb was once described as a "fourth ossicle" by Pieter Paaw in 1615. Incus The incus or anvil is a bone in the middle ear. The anvil-shaped small bone is one of three ossicles in the middle ear. The "incus" receives vibrations from the malleus, to which it is connected laterally, and transmits these to the
Anvil of Stars this. Bear leaves the human crew torn between relief that their work is complete and their guilt that they were little better than those they had come to destroy. Anvil of Stars Anvil of Stars is a science fiction novel by American writer Greg Bear, a sequel to "The Forge of God". The book was initially released in 1993 by Warner Books. In the novel, volunteers from among survivors of the recently destroyed Earth are sent on a quest by a mysterious race of beings known as "The Benefactors" to find and destroy "The Killers", the civilization responsible for the