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The Anatomy of the Eye 1543
28 visits
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The Anatomy of the Eye
29 visits
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Diagram of the ventricles and the senses
26 visits
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Illustrating the general ideas on anatomy current at the Renaissance
27 visits
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Diagram of the senses, the humours, the cerebral ventricles, and the intellectual facultie
32 visits
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The layers of the head
28 visits
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Venice, 1496, showing the ventricles of the brain
37 visits
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The figure shows the ten layers of the head
27 visits
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Leonardo Da Vincis diagram of the heart
26 visits
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Roger Bacons diagram of the Eye
33 visits
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The First printed map of England
81 visits
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a lecture on anatomy
33 visits
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The first picture of dissection in an English-printed book
35 visits
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A dissection scene
33 visits
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Title-page of Mellerstadt’s edition of the Anatomy of Mondino, Leipzig, 1493. The scene is laid in the open air
30 visits
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The figure shows a professor and pupil. The former is demonstrating the bones of a skeleton.
30 visits
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The first printed picture of dissection
33 visits
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An anatomical diagram of about 1298
37 visits
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Dante’s scheme of the universe
Slightly modified from Michelangelo Caetani, duca di Sermoneta, La materia della Divina Commedia di Dante Allighieri dichiarata in VI tavole, Monte Cassino, 1855.
47 visits
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Celestial influences on men animals and plants
From THE LUCCA MS fo. 37 r
47 visits
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Reconstructed from her measurements. ab, cd, and ef are all equal to each other, as are also gh, hk, and kl. The clouds are situated in the outer part of the aer tenuis, and form a prolongation downwards from the aer aquosus towards the earth.
45 visits
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The Universe (from the Heidelberg Codex of the Scivias)
The scientific views of Hildegard are embedded in a theological setting, and are mainly encountered in the Scivias and the Liber divinorum operum simplicis hominis. To a less extent they appear occasionally in her Epistolae and in the Liber vitae meritorum.
45 visits
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Hildegard’s First Scheme of the Universe (slightly simplified from the Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 14 r)
50 visits
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The Hildegard Country
43 visits
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Hildegard receiving the Light from Heaven (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 1 r)
59 visits
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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.
29 visits
