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The Development of the Study of Anatomy from the Renaissance to Cartesianism: Da Carpi, Vesalius, Estienne, Bidloo
Author(s): Raphael Cuir (Author)
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 Aug. 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 0773446575
- ISBN-13: 9780773446571
Book Description
This book is the first to focus on a paradox of anatomical images from the Renaissance to the 18th century: the representations of skeletons and flayed figures in a state of animation, i. e. apparently endowed with life despite the logical impossibility of this being so.
