- Illustrating Galen’s physiological teaching
The basic principle of life, in the Galenic physiology, is a spirit, anima or pneuma, drawn from the general world-soul in the act of respiration. It enters the body through the rough artery (τραχεῖα ἀρτηρία, arteria aspera of mediaeval notation), the organ known to our nomenclature as the trachea. From this trachea the pneuma passes to the lung and then, through the vein-like artery (ἀρτηρία φλεβώδης, arteria venalis of mediaeval writers, the pulmonary vein of our nomenclature), to the left ventricle. Here it will be best to leave it for a moment and trace the vascular system along a different route. - Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid - The Microcosm
The idea of a close parallelism between the structure of man and of the wider universe was gradually abandoned by the scientific, while among the unscientific it degenerated and became little better than an insane obsession. As such it appears in the ingenious ravings of the English follower of Paracelsus, the Rosicrucian, Robert Fludd, who reproduced, often with fidelity, the systems which had some novelty five centuries before his time. - An anatomical diagram of about 1298
An anatomical diagram of about 1298 - The first printed picture of dissection
The first printed picture of dissection - The figure shows a professor and pupil. The former is demonstrating the bones of a skeleton.
The figure shows a professor and pupil. The former is demonstrating the bones of a skeleton. - Title-page of Mellerstadt’s edition of the Anatomy of Mondino, Leipzig, 1493. The scene is laid in the open air
Title-page of Mellerstadt’s edition of the Anatomy of Mondino, Leipzig, 1493. The scene is laid in the open air - A dissection scene
A dissection scene - The first picture of dissection in an English-printed book
The first picture of dissection in an English-printed book - a lecture on anatomy
a lecture on anatomy - Roger Bacons diagram of the Eye
Roger Bacons diagram of the Eye - Leonardo Da Vincis diagram of the heart
Leonardo Da Vincis diagram of the heart - The figure shows the ten layers of the head
The figure shows the ten layers of the head - The layers of the head
The layers of the head - Venice, 1496, showing the ventricles of the brain
Venice, 1496, showing the ventricles of the brain - Diagram of the senses, the humours, the cerebral ventricles, and the intellectual facultie
Diagram of the senses, the humours, the cerebral ventricles, and the intellectual facultie - Illustrating the general ideas on anatomy current at the Renaissance
Illustrating the general ideas on anatomy current at the Renaissance - The Anatomy of the Eye
The Anatomy of the Eye - Diagram of the ventricles and the senses
Diagram of the ventricles and the senses with their relation to the intellectual processes according to the doctrine of the Renaissance anatomists. - The Anatomy of the Eye
From Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica, Basel, 1543, p. 643. a, Crystalline humour; o, Albugineous humour; c, Vitreous humour; n, Cornea; q, Conjunctiva; m, Sclerotica; g, Secundina; h, Uvea; k, Arachnoidea; e, Retina. - Girl with note in her hand
- Young girl
- Girl with doll sitting on a hill
- Girl in oval frame
- Girl carrying some flowers
- Girl in cloak
- Curly-headed girl sitting up in bed
Curly-headed girl sitting up in bed - Pointing fingers at girl
Pointing fingers at girl - Two crying girls
- Picture of girl crying
- Two girls sitting in church
- Girl studying from books
- Girl sitting on a chair
- Girl looking out window
- Girl in large hat holding a doll
- Girl in candy store
- Girl kneeling and drawing
- Curly-headed girl
- Schoolgirl writing
- Three girls
- Girl with doll
- Girl and some bottles
- Girl reading a book
- Girl reading
- Girl eating banana
Girl eating banana - William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone - Simon Bolivar
Simon Bolivar - Robert Tristram Coffin, Poet
Robert Tristram Coffin, Poet - Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick - Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck - Nicola the magician
Nicola the magician - Marshall Jofre
Marshall Jofre - Marshall Foch
Marshall Foch - Lorado Taft
Lorado Taft - Lafayette
Lafayette - Josef Lhevinne
Josef Lhevinne - John Masefield
John Masefield - Jack Dempsey
Jack Dempsey - Howard Thurston
Howard Thurston - Howard Thurston - Magician
Howard Thurston - Magician