PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Brown University’s library boasts an anatomy book that combines form and function in macabre fashion. Its cover -- tanned and polished to a smooth golden brown, like fine leather -- ...
A rare second edition of a classic textbook on the human form by the Renaissance anatomist Andreas Vesalius recently soared past its $1.2 million high estimate to sell for $2.2 million in an online ...
Seeing the inner workings of a hand, or the nervous system surrounding the spleen, doesn’t seem appealing to most people. However, “Gray’s Anatomy,” the corpus of medical students and artists for over ...
In some ways, Brussels-born, Renaissance-era surgeon/physician/anatomist Andreas Vesalius was quite like modern-day academics. He favored new research, discarding then-prevalent attitudes toward the ...
Many college athletes feel exploited when they see their image on a billboard advertising season ticket packages or their jersey being sold at the campus bookstore. Maryland wing Dez Wells experienced ...
Paleontologist Neil Shubin unites the discoveries of fossils and the sciences of paleontology and genetics with his experience of teaching human anatomy into a written voyage of evolution, titled Your ...
Gavin Francis is not a traditional traveler. The landscape he explores is human anatomy, his maps are x-rays. “I journey through the body as I listen to my patients’ lungs, manipulate their joints, or ...
A censored 16th-century anatomy book may provide evidence that taboos slowed the development of knowledge of the female genitals, researchers have said. The 1559 edition of Thomas Gemini’s Compediosa ...
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