Guerrini, Anita (Author)
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 94
Pages: 577--603
In 1730, shortly before his death, the Paris anatomist Joseph-Guichard Duverney wrote his will, leaving his anatomical specimens to the Académie des Sciences, of which he was a member. But the will was disputed by Pierre Chirac, supervisor of the Jardin du Roi where Duverney, as professor of anatomy, had performed most of the dissections that produced the specimens. The ensuing debate between Chirac and René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, arguing for the Académie, reveals the tensions surrounding both the concept of intellectual property in this period and the collective enterprise in natural philosophy. The differing roles and audiences of the Académie and the Jardin were central to this debate. In addition, this essay explores the origins and significance of the anatomical specimens themselves and their changing role in instruction and display, as well as the transition from the cabinet of curiosities to the natural history museum.
...MoreDescription On a collection of skeletons left to the Académie des Sciences by Paris anatomist Joseph-Guichard Duverney and the institutional disputes over intellectual property with the Jardin du Roi.
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