The Development of the Study of Anatomy from the Renaissance to Cartesianism: Da Carpi, Vesalius, Estienne, Bidloo

by Raphael Cuir, Yves Hersant (Foreword)

This book is the first to focus on a paradox of anatomical images from the Renaissance to the 18th 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.

198 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2009