Anatomy and the Organization of Knowledge, 1500–1850

Across early modern Europe, the growing scientific practice of dissection prompted new and insightful ideas about the human body. This collection of essays explores the impact of anatomical knowledge on wider issues of learning and culture. The contributors argue that the study of anatomy directly influenced the way in which emerging disciplines of study were organized.

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Anatomy and the Organization of Knowledge, 1500–1850

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

CONTENTS
pp v-vi

List of Contributors
pp vii-xii

List of Figures
pp xiii-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-8

Part I - The Body as a Map

1 - Early Modern Dissection as a Physical Model of Organization
pp 9-24

2 - ‘Who Will Not Force a Mad Man to be Let Blood?’: Circulation and Trade in the Early Eighteenth Century
pp 25-36

3 - Earth's Intelligent Body: Subterranean Systems and the Circulation of Knowledge, or, The Radius Subtending Circumnavigation
pp 37-52

4 - ‘After an Unwonted Manner’: Anatomy and Poetical Organization in Early Modern England
pp 53-70

5 - Subtle Bodies: The Limits of Categories in Girolamo Cardano's De Subtilitate
pp 71-84

Part II - The Collective Body

6 - Mirroring, Anatomy, Transparency: The Collective Body and the Co-opted Individual in Spenser, Hobbes and Bunyan
pp 85-98

7 - From Human to Political Body and Soul: Materialism and Mortalism in the Political Theory of Thomas Hobbes
pp 99-112

8 - Visualizing the Fibre-Woven Body: Nehemiah Grew's Plant Anatomy and the Emergence of the Fibre Body
pp 113-128

9 - Forms of Materialist Embodiment
pp 129-144

Part III - Bodies Visualized

10 - Visualizing Monsters: Anatomy as a Regulatory System
pp 145-156

11 - Anatomy, Newtonian Physiology and Learned Culture: The Myotomia Reformata and its Context within Georgian Scholarship
pp 157-170

12 - Art and Medicine: Creative Complicity between Artistic Representation and Research
pp 171-186

13 - The Internal Environment: Claude Bernard's Concept and its Representation in Fantastic Voyage
pp 187-206

Notes
pp 207-246

Index
pp 247-256

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