Violence and the genesis of the anatomical image /
Nothing excited early modern anatomists more than touching a beating heart. In his 1543 treatise, Andreas Vesalius boasts that he was able to feel life itself through the membranes of a heart belonging to a man who had just been executed, a comment that appears near the woodcut of a person being dis...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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University Park, PA :
Penn State University Press,
[2022]
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