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Visual Representation and the Body in Early Modern Anatomy Visual Representation and the Body in Early Modern Anatomy Sebastian Pranghofer Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Durham University Department of Philosophy and School of Medicine and Health 2011 Table of contents Abstract 4 Declaration and statement of copyright 5 Acknowledgements 6 List of Figures 7 1. Introduction 13 2. The visual representation of the anatomical body, practice and authority 34 2.1 Body, image, mediality 36 2.2 The anatomized body 46 2.3 The public display of the anatomical body 55 2.4 Conclusions 63 3. Early modern anatomy and the identity of the anatomist 64 3.1 Honour, dignity and decency 66 3.2 The identity of the anatomist 72 3.3 Skill, knowledge and the aesthetics of anatomy 80 3.4 Conclusions 88 4. Representations of the rete mirabile in early modern anatomy 90 4.1 The Galenic understanding of the rete mirabile and the Vesalian 93 challenge 4.2 New physiologies of the rete mirabile in the seventeenth century 99 4.4 The disappearance of the rete mirabile from human anatomy 106 4.4 Conclusions 112 5. From the milky veins to the lymphatic system 116 5.1 Milky veins and lymphatic vessels 120 5.2 The iconography of the milky veins and the lymphatic vessels 126 5.3 The system of absorbing vessels 131 5.4 Beauty and truth 139 5.5 Image, text and methodology 145 5.6 Monro, Fyfe and the ‘Edinburgh body’ 151 5.7 Conclusions 154 2 6. Personhood before birth? – Early modern images of the unborn 159 6.1 Practical knowledge and images of the unborn 164 6.2 Images and ideas of generation 170 6.3 Visual representation and debates about preformation 176 6.4 Christianity, morality and the unborn 189 6.5 The biological facts of reproduction 200 6.6 Conclusions 204 7. Conclusions 207 8. Bibliography 216 8.1 Reference works 216 8.2 Web-pages 216 8.3 Publications before 1850 217 8.4 Publications after 1850 225 3 Abstract Anatomy was crucial for the formation of modern cultural concepts of the body during the early modern period. In a process from the Renaissance to the turn of the nineteenth century, cosmological concepts of the body were secularized and gradually replaced by notions of the body as an object of modern medicine and science. This thesis argues that the visual representation of the body played a key role in this transformation. Until the end of the seventeenth century the iconography of anatomy legitimized the dissection of the body and portrayed the anatomist as an honourable, dignified and decent scholar. However, during the Enlightenment the moralizing visual language was gradually replaced by neo-classical aesthetics and art theory. Now technical skills and detailed knowledge became the defining features of the anatomist and the representations of the anatomical body. This thesis uses a wide range of visual sources and analyzes them in the longue durée. The material includes illustrations from anatomical textbooks and their frontispieces, anatomical treatises and portraits of anatomists. These sources are discussed in their wider iconographic context as well as in relation to early modern concepts of the body and anatomical research. The first chapter discusses the general framework for the visual representation of the anatomical body, practice and authority, while the second chapter looks into how the visual representation of anatomy shaped the identity of the anatomist as the legitimate authority of the body. The other three chapters are case studies which use the examples of the rete mirabile, the lymphatic system and the unborn to analyze the different functions of anatomical images and how they were used to deal with uncertainty, establish new anatomical knowledge and reflected changing cultural meanings of the body. 4 Declaration This thesis is the result of my own work and has not been submitted previously for a degree at this or any other institution. An earlier version of chapter four has been published in Medical History. Sebastian Pranghofer, „“It could be Seen more Clearly in Unreasonable Animals than in Humans”: The Representation of the Rete Mirabile in Early Modern Anatomy‟, Medical History, 53 (2009), 561–586 Statement of copyright The copyright of this thesis rests with the author. No quotation from it should be published without the prior written consent and information derived from it should be acknowledged. 5 Acknowledgements I am very grateful to my supervisors Prof Holger Maehle and Dr Lutz Sauerteig for giving me the opportunity to write this thesis and their help and guidance over the last years. During researching and writing my PhD if have benefited from the support of many people and institutions. For giving me opportunities to discuss my ideas and their very helpful comments I would like to thank in no particular order Dr Rina Knoeff, Dr Sabine Todt, Prof Franklin Kopitzsch, Dr Rosemary Elliott, Dr Claudia Stein, Dr Sanjoy Bhattacharya and my colleagues and the postgraduate community at the Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease. My thanks go also to those who have provided me with copies of unpublished texts and helped me with my translations. They are acknowledged individually in the footnotes. A great help in providing me with rare books and reproductions were staff at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, especially Christian Hogrefe, staff at the rare books reading room of the Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Haus Unter den Linden, the Newcastle University Library Special Collections, the Wellcome Library in London, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich and many other libraries and Museums in the UK, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. I am also grateful to the Wellcome Trust, the British Society for the History of Science, the Royal Historical Society, the Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, the Faculty Arts and Humanities and the Department of Philosophy at Durham University for helping me to cover research expenses and travel to conferences. Finally, I would like to thank those in particular who have read the different versions of this thesis. Apart from my supervisors, Daniel Becker and Anita Winkler were very helpful with their comments on different sections of this text. Invaluable were the detailed and knowledgeable comments I received from Dr James Kennaway. This thesis has also greatly benefitted from his critical eye for stylistic shortcomings and extremely helpful suggestions. Finally, my thanks got to my family and friends without whom I would not have been able to finish this work. I am especially grateful to my parents for their continuous encouragement and support. 6 List of figures Chapter 2 2.1 Berengario da Carpi, Μικροκοσμογραφια, 1664, engraving, frontispiece (Wellcome Library, London, EPB/A 13338/A). 2.2 Berengario da Carpi, Isagoge, 1522, woodcut, detail of frontispiece (Wellcome Library, London, EPB/B 782/B). 2.3 Berengario da Carpi, Isagoge, 1535, woodcut, title vignette (Wellcome Library, London, EPB MSL). 2.4 Johannes de Ketham, Fasciculus, 1493, woodcut, frontispiece (U. S. National Library of Medicine, Anatomies on the Web, 2003, URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/Images/1200_pixels/ket ham_p64.jpg (last accessed 08/11/2010)). 2.5 Bartholomaeus Anglicus, Proprietatibus, 1494, woodcut, book V (Biblioteca Complutense, Madrid, BH INC FL-86, public domain via Google Books, URL: http://books.google.de/books?id=o5uY3F0BDOUC&hl=en&pg=PP1#v=onepa ge&q&f=false (last accessed 24/11/2010)). 2.6 Vesalius, Fabrica, 1543, woodcut, frontispiece (U. S. National Library of Medicine, Historical Anatomies on the Web, 2003, URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/Images/1200_pixels/Ve salius_TitlePg.jpg (last accessed 08/11/2010)). 2.7 Fludd, Anatomiae, 1623, engraving, vol. 1, frontispiece (Wellcome Library, London, EPB/D 2328/D/1). 2.8 Guillemeau, Tables, 1586, engraving, frontispiece (Wellcome Library, London, EPB/D 7343/D). 2.9 The Anatomical Theatre in Leiden, by Willem Swanenburgh after Johannes Woudanus, 1610, engraving (Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Inv.-Nr. HB 25433 Kaps 1198). 2.10 The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Willem van der Meer, by Michiel (and Pieter?) van Mierevelt, 1617, oil on canvas (Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft). Chapter 3 3.1 The Flaying of the Corrupt Judge Sisamnes, by Gerard David, 1498/99. oil on panel, (Bruges, Groenigemuseum, public domain via Wikimedia Commons, URL: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Gerard_David_ 007.jpg (last accessed 24/11/2010)). 3.2 Valverde, Historia, 1556, woodcut, book 2, table 1 (Wellcome Library, London, EPB/D 6475/D). 3.3 St Bartholomew, by Marco d'Agrate, 1562, marble statue, (Milan Cathedral, by Michele M. F., CC-BY-SA-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0) via Wikimedia Commons, URL: http://upload.wikimedia.org/ wikipedia/ commons/2/29/San_Bartolomeo_Scorticato.jpg (last accessed 24/11/2010)). 7 3.4 Reusner, Emblemata, , 1631, woodcut, emblem 27, p. 128 (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Nv 7585). 3.5 Vesalius, Fabrica, 1543, woodcut, initial “V” (Wellcome Library, London, EPB/D 6560/D). 3.6 Valverde, Anatomia, 1586, woodcut, frontispiece (Wellcome Library, London, EPB/D 6477/D). 3.7 Bartholin, Anatomia, 1651, engraving, frontispiece (Wellcome Library, London, EPB/B 12393/B). 3.8 Blasius, Ontleeding, 1675, engraving, frontispiece (Wellcome Library, London, EPB/A 14036/A). 3.9 Blankaart, Anatomie, , 1678, engraving, frontispiece (Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 8 ZOOL XI, 5313). 3.10 An Anatomical Dissection by Pieter Pauw in the Leiden Anatomy Theatre, Andries Stock after Jacques de Gheyn II, 1615, engraving (Wellcome Library, London, Iconographic Collections). 3.11 Blankaart, Anatomie, , 1678, engraving, author portrait (Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 8 ZOOL XI, 5313). 3.12 Blankaart, Anatomia, 1687, engraving, frontispiece (Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, M: Mb 10a). 3.13 Blankaart, Anatomie, 1691, engraving, frontispiece (Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, M: Mb 10, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 50 MA 4269).
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