Article ID: CBB000774860

An Alternative to the Cosmic and Mechanic Metaphors for the Human Body? The House Illustration in Ma'aseh Tuviyah (1708) (2008)

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Description On an illustration in a Hebrew medical treatise in which the human body is depicted as a house and on the relationship of this to the art of memory.


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Authors & Contributors
Fliethmann, Axel
Murel, Jacob
Giuseppe Papagno
Weller, Christiane
Golding, Rebecca Lampert
Cohen, Adam S.
Concepts
Human body
Visual representation; visual communication
Human anatomy
Medicine
Scientific illustration
Science and art
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
16th century
Early modern
20th century, early
Places
Netherlands
Europe
England
London (England)
Japan
China
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