#history of anatomy

[schistostegapennata]

I’ve been translating parts of this anatomy text that I’m researching, and one of the authors in the preface to this specific edition is so petty about the author of a previous edition, it’s wonderful.

Some examples: “Lancisi’s growing age and his many affairs did not allow him to give us a complete interpretation of Eustachi’s anatomical illustrations; nor could he sometimes avoid writing as if he were hallucinating.”

“Lancisi himself noticed these fallacies after he published his edition of Eustachi’s illustrations in 1714, leading him to decide to create another—more expensive and befitting, and purged of that most execrable filth he had written. But, alas, prevented by his own death, he left the foul, infected thing uncleansed.”

“Alas, the Geneva edition of 1717 published Eustachi’s images with Lancisi’s monstruous and truncated commentary.”

And this great concluding sentence:

“In conclusion, it will be enough for me to have adapted such an excellent treasure so that it can be used by lovers of anatomy, with the hope that any who study it will have a safer, more detailed, and more accurate explanation than that of Lancisi.”

#old academia drama #early modern anatomy #early modern italy #early modern period #early modern history #anatomy #anatomical atlas #anatomical illustration #history of science #history of medicine #anatomical history #history of anatomy #shitpost #art history #academic problems #latin #latin translation

[amatesura]

x-ray images, 1916-1931

#anatomy #x-ray image #x-ray images #vintage #medical history #x-ray #radiology #radiography #1910's #20's #30's #*

[bebs-art-gallery]

Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Willem van der Meer (1617)

— by Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt

#painting #art #artblr #oil on canvas #oil painting #art history #classical art #goth #gothic #dark art #whump #whumpblr #medical whump #hospital whump #artist #dark academia #anatomy #classic academia #gothcore #academia aesthetic #artists #art community #art gallery #fine art #art blog

[curiosityistheleastofmyproblems]

The Sacred Heart of an unidentified location in Portugal.

Engraving by A. Debrie

#biology #curiosity #anatomy #history #medicine #christianity #sacred heart #anatomical art #engraving #vintage #heart

[the-cricket-chirps]

Vincent van Gogh

Skull, May, 1887 (profile)

Skull, May, 1887

Sunflowers, 4th version, 1888

#vincent van gogh #van gogh #modern art #expressionism #dutch painter #art history #sunflowers #skulls #floral art #anatomy #flowers in art #beautiful flowers #nature #floral painting #floral #flora #tumblrstyle #tumblr art #artists on tumblr #famous artists #tumblraesthetic #aesthetictumblr #tumblrpictures #tumblrpic #beautiful art #beauty #skull art #skull aesthetic #aeathetic #love

[fallbabylon]

Model depicting internal organs for medical study (1700's)- Science museum, London

#dissection #dissect #anatomy #medical #medical science #medicine #history #science museum #cadaver #mannequin #dead #death #goth #gothic #horror #macabre #morbid #gruesome #goth aesthetic #goth art #eye #evil eye #rotting #decay #internal organs

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

My mom bought me this book for Christmas

The Resurrectionist by EB Hudspeth, a fantasy field guide full of anatomical illustrations of monsters and cryptids.

The musculoskeletal systems are fun to look at, but not nearly as in-depth as I would have liked. If you have more than a passing knowledge of taxonomy (or in my case, access to Wikipedia), a lot of the details fall apart under scrutiny

The harpy has four upper limbs connected to one shoulder girdle; it shouldn't have arms, only wings

The sphinx is not classified as a mammal, but is still somehow in the family Felidae with cats (and like the harpy is also drawn with only two girdles despite having six limbs. I will give the author credit for giving the sphinx a keel for the wing muscles to attach to)

It lists the Hindu deity Genesha as a cryptid, which is a no-no.

Cerberus is also explicitly not a mammal, but somehow still a canine (literally in the species Canis with wolves, dogs, and coyotes)

Both mermaids and dragons are listed as members of the order Caudata; the only extant members of Caudata are salamanders, which kinda makes sense for dragons, but not so much for mermaids (also, the author keeps playing it fast and loose with cladistics; both mermaids and dragons are in the same order despite being in different classes, and while dragons are explicitly said to be amphibians, mermaids are given the fictional class mammicthyes, which means mammal-fish. At that point, why not just call mermaids amphibians? Why make up a fake latin hybrid name?)

But what bugs me most of all is the classification of the Minotaur as its own order of mammal when in mythology it is explicitly described as a hybrid of two known species (made possible only by the cruel machinations of the divine, but still)

To use actual taxonomical nomenclature, the minotaur's species would be B. taurus × H. sapiens (specifically B. taurus♂ × H. sapiens♀; there are, to my knowledge, no legends of H. sapiens♂ × B. taurus♀). That's how ligers, tigons, mules, zorses, pizzly bears, narlugas, etc., are described.

If I had written this book, I would have leaned more into evolutionary biology. Most land animals have four limbs because they all evolved from boney lobe-finned fish, which split off from the boneless sharks and rays millions of years earlier, so any six-limbed vertebrates would need to be descended from a fictitious category of six-finned fish which would either be an offshoot of boney fish/tetrapods (I guess they'd be hexapods, though that term refers to insect arthropods), OR a precursor to boney and cartilaginous fish that both clades split away from much earlier (it's easier to lose structures than to gain them, so it makes more sense for a six-limbed ancestor to spawn four-limbed descendants than the other way around).

Think about how different elephants are from humans, and humans are from aligators, and aligators are from penguins, and remember that they all evolved from the same ancestor tiktaalik, an amphibious fish that existed some 375 million years ago. Imagine a precursor six-limbed species and how diverse all its descendants would look after 400 million years. Save for the occasional instance of convergent evolution causing two unrelated species to independently evolve similar body plans to fill the same niche, tetrapods and hexapods would look nothing alike. There would be very little recognizable overlap between the two. A six-limbed "pegasus" would not look like a real world horse, and a six-limbed "dragon" would not look reptilian/dinosaur-ish, for much the same reason that giraffes don't look like frogs; they're just too distantly related. Bonless sharks and boney fish and whales/dolphins all have similar looking bodyplans only because their environment requires the same hydrodynamic shape, while terrstrial vertebrates are much more physically diverse.

#biology #anatomy #monsters #cryptids #cryptozoology #book of monsters #evolution #evolutionary biology #evolutionary history #taxonomy #cladistics #science #hard fantasy #hard science fiction #hard science #tetrapod #hexapod

[wulleooo]

Doodles i made instead of studying

#ace attorney #aa #phoenix wright #miles edgeworth #wrightworth #narumitsu #maya fey #nrmt #doodles #art #ajdhajsh #failed history test but THE GAY IS MORE IMPORTANT 🔥🔥 #gay #homosexual behavior #they're gay your honor #silly #they still look off to me somehow grrr #i'll learn anatomy.... someday.... hopefully.... #new pen (definitely for writing #ARHASHDHSKJSH #ace attorney brain rot is real #my art

[itscolossal]

Elaborately Embellished Heart Sculptures by Ema Shin Reflect On the Anonymous Legacies of Women

#embroidery #anatomy #women #feminism #history #hearts #art #craft #needlework #sculpture

[darubyprincx]

cold world out there, kids, grab your coats

#ray's tag #AvA #ava victim #victim ava #alan becker #animator vs animation #ava fanart #keys' art #undescribed #i'd like to thank this song for getting me through my freshman year of high school #anyways i like making these posters. especially of the sticks- anatomy is a bitch and i hate it and it's way easier to just . Lines #yknow? #because let me tell you right now i do NOT have the energy to fight torsos every time i pick up my phone to draw. #procreate halftone tool you will always be famous #but uh. yeah. been thinking about victim lately. their actions make So Much Sense when u remember their history #im gonna eat lunch now byebye!

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned why humans developed such delicate feet 🦶

We didn't actually develop delicate feet. Rather, we created shoes.

Without shoes, our feet would have more calluses:

Not wearing shoes would also result in broader spaces between our toes for improved balance, similar to what is shown on the left side of the image:

Our feet have become delicate because we no longer develop calluses on them due to the use of shoes.

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#today i learned #facts #truth #history #news #anatomy

[amatesura]

frog hearts (1951)

#vintageedit #anatomy #50's #1950's #medical history #medical science #heart #heart disease #vintage #*

[cuties-in-codices]

anatomical drawing of muscles in the human body

in a medical manuscript, england, c. 1250–1310

source: Oxford, Boudleian Library, MS. Ashmole 399, fol. 22r

#13th century #anatomy #medieval anatomy #muscles #medical history #illuminated manuscript

[curiosityistheleastofmyproblems]

A skeleton gentleman at a ball asks a skeleton lady to dance; representing the effect of arsenical dyes and pigments in clothing and accessories.

Wood engraving, 1862.

Wellcome Collection

#biology #curiosity #anatomy #history #medicine #human skeleton #skeleton #arsenic #histmed #medical art #poison #macabre art #skullart #skull

[virginwetrooster]

Peach agrees to meet Bowser to actually negotiate a wedding.

Bowser shows up decked in his best wedding suit and vibrating from excitement but frowns and gets flustered at the sight of Mario and Luigi flanking Peach.

Peach : "The thing is, when I said before that I could not marry you, the issue was not only with you."

Luigi, between his teeth : "Yeesh, brutal."

Peach : "You see, despite my feelings for you, I can't just marry you because I wasn't alone when you proposed to me."

Bowser : *glares at Mario as he sees where this is going*

Peach : "So if you want to marry me, it can't only be me. You'll have to accept the-"

Bowser : "Fine, fine, I'll take the-"

"Three-"

"Two of you-WAIT what do you mean THREE ??!"

Peach and Mario point wordlessly at Luigi who does an awkward little wave. And despite the friendly smiles of the two others, Bowser gets suddenly hit by the awareness that if he says the wrong thing here and now, he won't have a shell tough enough to survive whatever happens in reaction.

So he accepts the offer. He feels like he's being scammed, because while he finally got Peach, he can tolerate Mario at best and what would he want with the Green Mario ?

Skipping to the wedding night (after the strangest wedding day ever witnessed in both Mushroom and Koopa Kingdom):

Bowser, laying on his bed, blushing, breathless and surrounded by three warm and sleepy humans : "Oh. Okay, I can get used to it after all."

#super mario bros #mareach #powser #bowsario #bowuigi #mariocest #royal affair polycule #maybe? how do you call the four of them? #Bowser got to learn a lot #about both himself + human anatomy + the Mario bros #the angsty version of this AU would be that it takes a lot of time for Bowser to warm up to M&L #especially Luigi who doesn't have as much history as Mario does with Bowser #but they still grow close don't worry #and Luigi is a Mario Bros package deal so it's not like he's alone

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Anatomical model, full size, 'The Transparent Woman'.

Maker: The German Health Museum, Cologne, Germany

Date: 1950-1953

Medium: Perspex, aluminum, metal, wood, plastic.

#history of art #vintage #anatomy #anatomical model #anatomical #the transparent woman #woman #the German health museum #cologne #1950's #1950 #1953