- A dissection scene
A dissection scene - Title-page of Mellerstadt’s edition of the Anatomy of Mondino, Leipzig, 1493. The scene is laid in the open air
Title-page of Mellerstadt’s edition of the Anatomy of Mondino, Leipzig, 1493. The scene is laid in the open air - a lecture on anatomy
a lecture on anatomy - The figure shows the ten layers of the head
The figure shows the ten layers of the head - Leonardo Da Vincis diagram of the heart
Leonardo Da Vincis diagram of the heart - The first picture of dissection in an English-printed book
The first picture of dissection in an English-printed book - The figure shows a professor and pupil. The former is demonstrating the bones of a skeleton.
The figure shows a professor and pupil. The former is demonstrating the bones of a skeleton. - Illustrating the general ideas on anatomy current at the Renaissance
Illustrating the general ideas on anatomy current at the Renaissance - The layers of the head
The layers of the head - The first printed picture of dissection
The first printed picture of dissection - Diagram of the ventricles and the senses
Diagram of the ventricles and the senses with their relation to the intellectual processes according to the doctrine of the Renaissance anatomists. - The Anatomy of the Eye
The Anatomy of the Eye - Roger Bacons diagram of the Eye
Roger Bacons diagram of the Eye - Diagram of the senses, the humours, the cerebral ventricles, and the intellectual facultie
Diagram of the senses, the humours, the cerebral ventricles, and the intellectual facultie - An anatomical diagram of about 1298
An anatomical diagram of about 1298 - Venice, 1496, showing the ventricles of the brain
Venice, 1496, showing the ventricles of the brain - The Microcosm
The idea of a close parallelism between the structure of man and of the wider universe was gradually abandoned by the scientific, while among the unscientific it degenerated and became little better than an insane obsession. As such it appears in the ingenious ravings of the English follower of Paracelsus, the Rosicrucian, Robert Fludd, who reproduced, often with fidelity, the systems which had some novelty five centuries before his time. - The arch of the aorta and its branches
- The Anatomy of the Eye
From Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica, Basel, 1543, p. 643. a, Crystalline humour; o, Albugineous humour; c, Vitreous humour; n, Cornea; q, Conjunctiva; m, Sclerotica; g, Secundina; h, Uvea; k, Arachnoidea; e, Retina. - The regions of the abdomen and their contents
- Lymphatics of the leg.
- The cartilages of the larynx; the trachea and bronchi
- Lymphatics of the head and neck. B, the thoracic duct
- A cross section of the skin
- The right auricle and ventricle laid open
- Skeleton
- The root of the left lung
- The Spine
- Front view of the thorax
- The Skull
- Superficial veins of the head and neck
- Passage into trachea and esophagus; Pharynx
- Vertical section of the skull, showing the sinuses of the dura mater
Vertical section of the skull - Plan of the foetal circulation
- Illustrating Galen’s physiological teaching
The basic principle of life, in the Galenic physiology, is a spirit, anima or pneuma, drawn from the general world-soul in the act of respiration. It enters the body through the rough artery (τραχεῖα ἀρτηρία, arteria aspera of mediaeval notation), the organ known to our nomenclature as the trachea. From this trachea the pneuma passes to the lung and then, through the vein-like artery (ἀρτηρία φλεβώδης, arteria venalis of mediaeval writers, the pulmonary vein of our nomenclature), to the left ventricle. Here it will be best to leave it for a moment and trace the vascular system along a different route.