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Anatomy and the organization of knowledge, 1500-1850 / edited by Matthew Landers and Brian Muñoz.

Other author/creatorLanders, Matthew.
Other author/creatorMuñoz, Brian.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoLondon : Pickering & Chatto, 2012.
Descriptionxiii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series The body, gender and culture ; no. 9
Body, gender and culture ; no. 9. ^A1107600
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 207-245) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013426114
ISBN9781848933217 (alk. paper)
ISBN1848933215 (alk. paper)

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