Book ID: CBB000430272

Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form (2003)

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Sims, Michael (Author)


Viking


Publication Date: 2003
Physical Details: x + 342 pp.; ill.
Language: English

Description Personal and popular account of the human body.


Citation URI
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Authors & Contributors
Tinne Claes
Anderson, Penelope
Schaffner, Anna K.
Ciliberti, Rosagemma
Fulcheri, Ezio
Petralia, Paolo
Journals
Medicina Historica
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Nature
Medical History
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Publishers
Vossiuspers UvA - Amsterdam University Press
Silvana Editoriale
Princeton University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Oxford University Press
MIT Press
Concepts
Human body
Human anatomy
Medicine
Dissection
Scientific illustration
Visual representation; visual communication
People
Descartes, René
Vrolik, Willem
Vrolik, Gerard
Vesalius, Andreas
Leonardo da Vinci
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
18th century
17th century
16th century
Places
Netherlands
Great Britain
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
England
Florence (Italy)
Italy
Institutions
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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