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Anatomy and the organization of knowledge, 1500-1850

Title
Anatomy and the organization of knowledge, 1500-1850 [electronic resource] / edited by Matthew Landers and Brian Muñoz.
ISBN
9781315655055 (electronic bk.)
1315655055 (electronic bk.)
9781848933217
1848933215
Published
London : Pickering & Chatto, 2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
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Original
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 06, 2020
Series
Body, gender and culture ; no. 9.
The body, gender and culture ; no. 9
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-245) and index.
Contents
Part 1: The body as a map. Early modern dissection as a physical model of organization / Matthew Landers ; 'Who will not force a mad man to be let blood?' : circulation and trade in the early eighteenth century / Amy Witherbee ; Earth's intelligent body : subterranean systems and the circulation of knowledge, or, The radius subtending circumnavigation / Kevin L. Cope ; 'After an unwonted manner' : anatomy and poetical organization in Early Modern England / Mauro Spicci ; Subtle bodies : the limits of categories in Girolamo Cardano's 'De Subtilitate' / Sarah Parker
Part 2: The collective body. Mirroring, anatomy, transparency : the collective body and the co-opted individual in Spenser, Hobbes and Bunyan / Nick Davis ; From human to political body and soul : materialism and mortalism in the political theory of Thomas Hobbes / Ionut Untea ; Visualizing the fibre-woven body : Nehemiah Grew's plant anatomy and the emergence of the fibre body / Hisao Ishizuka ; Forms of materialist embodiment / Charles T. Wolfe
Part 3: Bodies visualized. Visualizing monsters : anatomy as a regulatory system / Touba Ghadessi ; Anatomy, Newtonian physiology and learned culture : the 'Myotomia Reformata' and its context within Georgian scholarship / Craig Ashley Hanson ; Art and medicine : creative complicity between artistic representation and research / Filippo Pierpaolo Marino ; The internal environment : Claude Bernard's concept and its representaiton in 'Fantastic Voyage / Jérôme Goffette and Jonathan Simon.
Subjects (Medical)
History, Modern 1601-
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