PMID: 11639838Jan 1, 1994Paper

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Physis; rivista internazionale di storia della scienza
A Carlino

Abstract

Anatomical fugitive sheets are of great interest, as a typographical genre, not only for the history of printing and the history of medicine, but also, more generally, for the history of culture as a whole. They were published as folio woodcuts (more rarely engravings) in Germany, France, Italy, England and the Netherlands from the end of the XVth centkury to the mid XVIIIth century. These sheets contain a figure representing the human body (male and female) and a text describing in a concise and quite rough way the elements of the illustration. What is unusual about these sheets is that the trunk of the figures and some of the internal organs can be lifted up or peeled away, like some contemporary books for children. The figures and some internal parts are very often coloured. Judging from the number of editions (I have found 15 editions published between 1538 and 1540!), anatomical sheets met with a huge commercial success and a very wide circulation indeed. Students of the faculties of medicine and philosophy and barber-surgeons were the more obvious consumers. Students would use them as aids to memory to accompany non-illustrated medical books; barbers to grasp some basic notions of the human body, useful for the practice o...Continue Reading

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