Vintage anatomy

Bourgery, Jean Baptiste Marc; Jacob, Nicolas Henri [Hrsg.]: Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme: comprenant la médicine opératoire (Band 6, Atlas); Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

I just discovered this wonderful anatomical chart (see above) from volume one of Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia, published in 1728. A beautiful, hi-res version of the image is available in the Wikipedia commons; I highly encourage you to visit the original (here) which is well worth a long, involved perusing, but is, sadly, too large to include here. To encourage you to visit the original, I have selected out some of my favorite details above. You can also check out the entire digitized book…

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1367 This is the first installment of a chronology of the anatomical representation of the heart, along with a few metaphorical images tossed in. No commentary yet--just a quick post. All images are either from...

Vintage anatomy print showing a diagram of the human eye and tear duct, labeled by number for reference.

Muscles of the back. On the left side is exposed the first layer; on the right side, the second layer and part of the third.

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