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