INDEX
Academy of Philosophers, Bologna, 178
Academy of the Restless, Bologna, 178
aesthetics, neoclassical, 178
Age of Enlightenment, 126
Aldrovandi, Ulisse (1522–1605), naturalist
collection of natural objects, 154
altruism, artificial, 104, 106
altruism, egotistical, 103
anatomical curiosities, collections, 154
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Cardano’s knowledge, 75
Edward Edwardes, manual (1532), 55
lexicon, The Purple Island (1633), 62
anatomical science and intellectual produc-
tion, 2
anatomical studies of Galen, 73–4
anatomy, 4, 9, 12, 19, 77
affective bipolarity and, 47
comparative study of, 1
medical associations, 39
mind, 54
natural philosophy and, 13
non-medical, 54
philosophy and, 3, 53
practical or theoretical, 18
regulatory system, 145–56
rotting body, in art, 175
of the universe, 39
Anatomy of a Hande in the Manner of a
Dyall (1554), 54
Angelico, Beato (c. 1393–1455), Il Miracolo
della Gamba Nera, 174
Anglo-Dutch medical practice, 158
animal and plant anatomy, 123
animal spirits, 135, 136
animal vivisections, 30
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animals, fantastic, Pierre Boaistuau (c.
1520–66), 50
aquarium in Regent’s Park, 1853, 192
aquatic seascape, body as, 192
aquatic universe, blood stream, 197–9
architectural analogies, 57
Aristotle
Parts of Animals, 71–3
Poetics, 93
texts on animals, 30
Aristotelian
logic, 78, 83
methodology in dissection, 79
philosophy, 73–4, 79
art and medicine, 171–85
Articles of Religion, 1563, Queen Elisabeth,
100
artist modelling from corpses, 174
artists and apothecaries, Florence, 172
artists’ study of anatomy, 176
Asimov, Isaac, novel based on film, Fantastic
Voyage (1966), 204
astronomy, 163
atheism, 124, 140
atom, instability of matter, 125
atomism
of Epicurius, 124
theistic and atheistic, 100
auditory system, 182
Austen, Ralph, Spiritual Use of an Orchard
(1653), 45
authoritarian regimes, 5
autobiographical motif, 58
autologie, anatomy and theology, 59
Avicenna, 172
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Bachelard, Gaston
The Poetics of Space, 197
backbone of animal, purpose of, 72
Bacon, Sir Francis, essay genre, 48
on nature and bodies, 131
on physiological process, 136
Baglivi, Giorgio, Roman anatomist, 1697
on body parts as machines, 133
banking, formative years in Britain
comparison with blood circulation, 28
banks in Britain, founding of, 27, 34
barber-surgeons, 158
Bear, Greg, Blood Music, film (1983), 204,
205
beekeeping, anatomy of, 48
Benlowes, Edward
poem in The Purple Island, 58–9
Berengario da Carpi (1460–1530), 146
Bernard, Claude
Fantastic Voyage, film, 187–205
internal environment (milieu intérieur),
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7, 189
Introduction to ... Experimental Medicine
(1865), 189
Bibliotheca anatomica, anatomical writings,
Europe, 116–17
Bidloo, Dr Govard, 160, 161
Anatomia humani corporis (1685), 159
Bidloo–Cowper conflict, 159–62
blood
life-bringing, 64
red blood cells in serum, 192–3
blood cells
Fantastic Voyage, film, 200–1
blood distribution, 28
blood in circulatory system, 199
Blood Music, film, Greg Bear, 189
Boaistuau, Pierre (c. 1520–66), Les histoires
prodigieuses, 150
bodily landscape, 61
body
as fibre-woven textiles, 113–28
image as portal to knowledge, 87
insular metaphor of (Phineas Fletcher), 68
interiors, two visions, lived versus dis-
sected, 205
as mechanical, 130, 133–4
in pain, 132
in paintings, 172
as textiles, 115–17
as vessels, 115
versions of, 188
body-castle, 85, 87, 88
body-house association, 56–7, 61
Boerhaave, Herman (1688–1738), 162, 164
Leiden professor of medicine, 130
medical scientist, 113
on solid parts of human body, 133
Bolognese School of body study, 172
bones of skull, example of subtilitas, 81–2
Borelli, Giovanni, De motu animalium
(1680–1), 133, 166
brain anatomy, Thomas Willis, 127
brain function, 103
brain, power and nature, Fantastic Voyage,
film, 201
Bramhall, Bishop John, 103
on immaterialism, 101
British discovery and conquest, 62
Büchner. Ludwig, ‘vulgar materialist’, 140
bullion draining from England, 34
Bunyan, John, The Holy War (1682), 4, 85,
94–5, 95
Burnet, Thomas, 44
on prelapsarian perfection, 43
Burton, Robert
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), 10,
19–23, 38
Calvin, John, condemnation of mortalism,
100
Cambridge Platonists, 100
capillary blood vessels, 115
capital assets, 27
Carcanus, Antonius, Anothomia (1478), 13
Cardano, Girolamo (1501–74)
De subtilitate, 4, 71–84
De vita propriis, autobiography (1643),
75
anatomical study, 74–5
Cardi, Ludovico, ‘Cigoli’ (1559–1613)
Scorticato, wax use in, 175
carotid artery, 199
Cartesian bodies, 130–1
castle as body and soul, 86–7
Castle of Alma, The Faerie Queene (1590)
castle and siege, 85–7
Temperance, 90
two gates, mouth and anus, 89
cause-and-effect relationship, 71, 83
Charles I, beheading, 99
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, dream visions, 86 Myotomia reformata (1724), 158, 163,

chemistry of life 165
Fantastic Voyage, film, 201–2 anatomical atlas, 1698, 160
Cheselden, William surgeon (1688–1752) drawing study, 169
anatomical studies, 157–9, 163, 169–70 Cowper’s glands, 158
Cheyne, George, nerve doctor, on body cranium, 66
fibres, 127 credit notes, 27
chimpanzees, anatomies comparison with Crooke, Helkiah, Mikrokosmografia (1615),
humans, 1 16–19
Christian believers, The Holy War (1682), 96 Crouch, Nathaniel, 38
Christianity and dissection, 79 Cudworth, Ralph, Cambridge Platonist, 100
Christianity and human form, 82 The True Intellectual System of the Uni-
cinema in twentieth century, 194 verse (1678), 100
circles, spheres, 63 on corporealists, 131
circulation of the blood
comparison with economic system, 35 Darwin, Charles, natural selection, 108
and early banking, 26 deaf-mutism, 182
money recirculation, 25–6 death, 89
circulatory and nervous system and volca- as escape for soul, 188
noes, 9, 49–50 decomposition of bodies in art, 176
Civil War period, chaos of, 125 defence systems of body, 67
Descartes, René, 100, 162

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classical language for authority of physicians,
165
cognitive development, 108
Colombo, Realdo (1510–59), De re ana-
tomica (1559), 153
colonial hubris, 68
colonies of Commonwealth, 110
colonization of selves, 60
colours, blue and red, meanings of, 202
Columbus, Christopher, 37
common descent of man and ape, 2
Common-Wealth, Mortall God, Leviathan,
92
Company of Barbers and Surgeons
Richard Mead, anatomy reader, 163
Company of San Luca
artists and physicians exchange, 173
compassion, 106, 109
and human peaceful development, 104
Comte, Auguste, on materialism, 137
corporal representation, symbolic, mirror-
like device, 85
corpse analysis, 182
Cousteau, Jacques
Le Monde du silence (The Silent World),
film, 198
Cowper, William (1666–1709)
Anatomie of Humane Bodies (1698), 159
Anatomy of Humane Bodies (1737), 161
Meditations
Traité de l’homme (1648, 1662), 133
body as hydraulic machine, 115, 129–30
dualism of, 101
Hobbes’s Objections, 102
Desnoues, Guillaume (c. 1650–c. 1735),
anatomy professor, Genova, 177
determinism, 140
Diderot, Denis
D’Alembert’s Dream, written 1769, 129,
134
Elements of Physiology, 131
‘Refutation of Helvétius’, 140
on brain as book, 143
on geometry, 139
on painting from corpses, 136
on primacy of touch, 138
on scientific experimentation of prison-
ers, 136
digression, status of, 20–1
disease causes, internal and external, 108–9
disease identification, 76
dissection, anatomical, 41, 53
of ape, 1
of human cadaver, 11, 18
on monstrous bodies, 146–7
practices, 146
for study, 77
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Donatello (Donato di Nicolo) (1386– pedagogical project, 202–4

1466), artist, 171 Richard Fleischer, 187
anatomic detail in nude figures, 173 serious scientific message, 204–5
Giuditta ( Judith and Holofernes), 174 fear of death, 188
Donne, John feelings, delicate, 126
on female body, 65 female breasts, 65
on ‘index’ and ‘book’, 62 female form detail, 17
dorsal fin of sharks and dolphins, 1 fibre body, 114, 126
Drake, James, Anthropologia nova, 116 in human anatomy, 123, 125, 128
Durand, Gilbert, imaginary, organization fibre theory, 5, 113
of, 195 of plant structure, 119
Fleischer, Richard
earth, anatomy of, 40, 42 Barabbas, film, 1961, 194–5
earthquakes as judgements of God, 50–1
Fantastic Voyage, film, 194
East India Company trade, 26, 34
flesh as earth’s surface, 42
ebullition theory, 167
Fletcher, Phineas
economics, classical, 34–5
island landscape, 62
economy as closed body-system, 3
The Purple Island (1633), 55, 58–65,
egoism, artificial, 107–11
68–9
egoism, psychological, 105
floating in water, 198–9
electrical phenomena of human body, 194
Fontenelle, Bernard (1657–1757), 129
Eliade, Mircea
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imaginary, organization of the, 195
on water, 198
eliminativism, 139
Elizabethan exploration as ocular, landscape
beauty, 61
embedded perspectives, 191
embodied reductionism, 143
Engels, Friedrich, on mechanistic material-
ism, 138
Enlightenment medicine, 5
Epicurean ethics, 138
Epicureanism, 74
epilepsy, political, 109
Estienne, Charles
On the Dissection of the Parts of the
Human Body (1545–6), 79
bones of the skull, 82
Eusebius of Caesarea (c. ad 263–339), 100
Evelyn, John, on atomism, 125
evolution from internal factors, 108
exploration, 60
of world as dangerous, 67–8
eyes as sensory receptor, 78
Fabricius of Aquapendente, Aristotelian
approach, 30
Fantastic Voyage, film
fictional vehicle for internal environ-
ment, 203
1743), 136–7
foreign trade, 34
Foucault, Michel (1926–84)
monsters as constructed ideals, 152
‘Four Distinct Coats of the Artery’ (Thomas
Willis), 118
Furetière, Antoine
Dictionnaire universel, on materialism,
131
Galen of Pergamum (130–200), 10, 64,
72–3, 75, 164, 172
On Anatomical Procedures, 73
De usu partium corporis humani, 11, 13,
74, 79
anatomical errors, 149
anatomical knowledge, 148
physician of Emperor Marcus Aurelius
(121–80), 148
theory on blood, 28–9
Galenic anatomy, Vesalius’s attack on, 77
Galileo (1564–1642)
The Assayer (1623), 102
Galli, Antonio, obstetrician (1708–82), 182
Gassendi, Pierre, 100, 124
Gaultier, Abraham, on soul, 142
Geminus, Thomas, plagiarization of Vesalius,
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Genesis, Book of
earth creation, 47
Moses, 45
geography of body, 57
geologism, 42, 45, 50
geometry and mathematics, 102
glandular follicle, Malpighi’s gland, 114
globule, Leeuwenhoek’s, 114
glucose content of blood, 193
God creating man (Genesis), 100
God’s wrath and monsters, 151
gold and silver, 34
Goldmann, Lucien, philosopher and sociolo-
gist, 2
Grew, Nehemiah (1641–1721)
Anatomy of Plants (1682), 118, 120–1
Cosmologia Sacra (1701), 119
‘The Air-Vessels Unroaved in a Vine
Leaf ’, 122
‘The Contexture of Perpendicular and
Horizontal Fibres’, 120
‘Threads Magnified’, 121
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plant anatomist, 5, 113–28
group consciousness, 2
Hall, Joseph
The Anatomie of Sinne (1603), 54
Haller, Victor Albrecht von (1708–77)
medical scientist, 113
Harvey, William, 35
De motu cordi (1628), 28–30, 64
circulation of the blood, 3, 25
knowledge of human anatomy, 9
theory of circulation, 29–30, 31
heart as foundation and pump, 28, 31
heart protectors, 66
heart stimuli, 103
heart’s role, 63
Helvétius, Claude-Adrien (1715–71), 140
Hemsterhuis, F, Dutch scientist
Lettre sur l’homme, 131
soul as man or animal, 139
heresy, 124
Hippocrates (460–377/9 bc), 72–3, 164,
172
HMS Beagle (Charles Darwin)
to fathom coastal depths, 192
Hobbes, Thomas (1558–1679)
De Cive (1642), 101, 105
De Corpore (1655), 101–2
251
Elements of Law (1640), 101
Leviathan (1651), 4, 85, 90
body as machine, 131
geometry and physics, 101
materialism and mortalism in political
theory, 5, 99–111
peace in human race, 101
‘read thyself ’, ‘read one another’, 104–5
Hogarth, William
The Analysis of Beauty (1753), 169
Georgian art, 6
homeostasis, 193
homologous similarities, 1, 2
Hooke, Robert
Micrographia (1665), 115–16, 188
horror films, 194
Huit, Ephraim
The Anatomie of Conscience (1626), 54
human anatomy
Corpus hippocratum, Greece, 400 bc, 148
human anatomy
art, 175
definition, 17–18
human body
artistic representations, 171
and body of state, 110
interior, 187–8
map, 62
morphologic study, 179
source of knowledge, 68
three-dimensional, 64
human dissection, 9–23
human forms composing Leviathan, 93
human physiology, scientific information
Fantastic Voyage, film, 204–5
human society, 104
humanist model of learning, 168
iatromechanism, 133, 159, 162, 164
imaginary, 195
imperialistic expansionism, 58–9
injection technique, 115
Institute of Sciences and Arts, 178
intellectual property and piracy, 159
intellectual structure of anatomy, 2
interaction with markets, 26
internal environment (milieu intérieur),
192–4
investment in early banks, 27
island metaphor, 61
island of Britain, 67
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Keill, James, on fibre theory, 126
Kepler, Johannes, 191
on planet movement, 99
kidneys, wax reproductions of, 179–80
Killigrew, William, on wealth management,
26
King, Edmund
‘Embroidery of Veins and Arteries of
Testicle’, 117
knowledge by seeing, 146
knowledge circulation 37–51
knowledge-mirror, 86
La Mettrie, Julien (1709–51)
L’Homme-Machine, 129, 135
Natural History of the Soul, 131
on desire, 138
man-machine, 130
lactation of woman, unnatural in male, 83
Lairesse, Gerard de, 169
engravings, 159–60
Lamy, Guillaume, Discours anatomiques
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(1675), 135
Langland , William, dream visions, 86
laws of causality, 105
laws of necessity, 105
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646–1716)
New Essays Concerning Human Under-
standing (1704), 143
Lelli, Ercole (1702–66)
artist in Accademia delle Scienze, 171
‘Fleyed-Men’ (c. 1750), 180
wax modellers in Bologna, 178–9
wax models of human anatomy, 180
Leviathan
anthropomorphic giant, monster 106
definition of, 92
human collectivity, 93
sovereign power, 94
symbolic figure, power of, 91
Liceti, Fortunio (1577–1657)
belief in monsters as truths of nature, 152
‘lilie white’ transparency, 64–5
literary anatomy, 19, 55–6, 58
literary tropes and metaphors, 54
living body, 132
Locke, John (1632–1704), on anatomy,
135–6
‘lombards’ (early pawn shops), 27
Lyly, John, Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit
(1578), 54
macrocosm and microcosm, 197
magma, pools of, 48
Maierng, Teodoro, Flemish anatomist, 175
malaria (ague), blood circulation problem,
108
man and the universe, 13
Manzolini, Giovanni (1700–55)
Study of the Ear, 181–2, 181
artist and anatomist, 181
artist in Accademia delle Scienze, 171
Marsili, Luigi Ferdinando (1658–1730), 178
Masaccio, Florentine painter (1401– c.
1428), 171, 173
masturbation, 38
materialism, 101, 131, 137–8, 142–3
corporealism and, 131
embodied, 5, 6
of Hobbes, 99, 124, 129
materialist
embodiment, 129–44
philosophy, 2
subjectivity, 143–4
mathematical semiotics, 31–3
mathematics for authority of physicians, 165
mathematics of Harvey, 31–2
Mead, Richard (1673–1754), 161
A Mechanical Account of Poisons in Sev-
eral Essays, 162, 164
Myotomia reformata (1724), 158–70
physician to King George II, 157
mechanism, 129
mechanistic explanation, 129
mechanistic materialism, 138–9
medical anatomism, 42
medical illustration, 171–2
melancholy, dissection of, 22
Mennel, Jacob
De signis portentis, atque prodigiis (1503),
150
metaphysics and medicine, 135
microscopes, 115
microscopic research, 124, 190
Middle Eastern markets, 26
minds of common people, Leviathan
(1651), 90
miniaturization process in film, 196, 199
minima naturalia of body, 114
mirror-body, 86
mirror distortion, 155
Mondeville, Henri de (1260–c. 1320)
Bolognese School of body study, 172
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Mondino de’ Liuzzi (c. 1270–1326)
Anothomia (1315), 13, 172
Bolognese School of body study, 172
dissections, anatomical, 1318, 77
money, circulation of, 33–4
circulation as blood circulation, 108
monster of Ravenna, early 1600s, 147
‘monster’, word origin, 151
monsters, 6, 145–56
definition of, by Ambroise Paré, 150–1
fascination with, in European court
culture, 145–6
importance as living beings, 152
objects for study, 146
pathological anomalies, 153
portraits of, 154
variety of sources on, 147
monstrous bodies, public dissections of, 147
Montaigne, Michel de (1533–92), essay
genre, 48
moral anatomy, 54, 58–9
moral education of Guyon, Castle of Alma
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sequence, 88
moral sentiments, 103
moral sympathy, thread-like fibres, 128
moralistic reflection, 55
Morandi, Anna (1716–74), 183
Study of the Ear, 181
Wax Hands (sculpture), 183
Wax Muscles of the Eyeball..., 184
artist in Accademia delle Scienze, 171
ceroplastics and anatomy work, 182
More, Henry, The Immortality of the Soul
(1659), 100
More, John, A Livelie Anatomie of Death
(1596), 54
mortal body of state, 107–11
mortalism, 101
Moses in Book of Genesis, 45
motion, internal and external, mind and
body, 102
murder cases
Jack the Ripper, Burke and Hare, 194
muscles morphology, 158
muscles of testes and penis, 158
muscular motion, 166–8
Nashe, Thomas
The Anatomie of Absurditie (1589), 54
‘natural lust’, 110
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natural philosophers on nature
as proof of God’s existence, 124
natural philosophy, 13, 71–3
‘natural wit’, ‘acquired wit’, Leviathan, 107
natural world research, 178
nature, interaction in, 44
navigation, anatomizing of, 46
necessitarianism, 101
nervous sensibility, 126
nervous system, 103
neurological determinism, 136–7
New Science of Royal Society, 163, 164
Newton., Sir Isaac, 6, 39, 157–70
modern atomism, 100
Newtonian physiology, 157–70
Newton-Leibniz conflict, anatomy, 166–7
Noah’s flood, 48–9
‘Normal Kidney’, ‘Horseshoe Kidney’ by
Ercole Lelli, 179
normative ideals of Vesalius, 149
orangutan anatomy, Dr Edward Tyson, 158
organ textures
atlas of Anatomic humani corporis (1685),
115
organic structure of body, 134
oxygenation, Fantastic Voyage, film, 202
pantheism of Spinoza, 124
paper currency, 27
Paré, Ambroise (1510–90)
Des monstres et prodiges (1573), 150
illustrations of case studies, 151
parts and whole, 21
passions, 137
Paterson, William
1694 proposal for foundation of Bank of
England, 33–5
pathological drawings and diagrams, 172
Pemberton, Henry, Fellow of Royal Society,
1720, 165–6
introduction to Myotomia reformata
(Cowper), 165–8
perspectivalism, 191
Petty, William, Political Arithmetick (1690),
25
phantom limb syndrome, 144
physical deformities, fascination with, 148
physical deviance, 149
physicalism, 138
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physiognomy and physiology, 42, 147
physiology and anatomy, 74, 165
physiology as science of life, 191–2
pity and compassion, 103
plagiarism and copyright, 159
plant anatomy and fibre body, 123–4
Nehemiah Grew, 118–20
plant structure, pictures, 120
plants as hair of earth, 40–1
plants as woven fabrics, 120
Platonism, 74
Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia, 173–4
poem, Isle of Man, 58
poet-anatomist, 57
poetical organization and anatomy, 53–69
poisons, iatromechanistic account, 165
political automaton, 104–7
political destiny of human species
Hobbes’s pessimism, 111
political economics and mathematical
reasoning, 33
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political radicalism, 124
Pollaiuolo, Antonio (1432–98)
artistic and anatomic forms, 174–5
Pope, Alexander, Imitations of Horace, 157
Pope Benedetto XIV, museum of human
anatomy, 180
population increase, danger of, 109
post-mortem autopsies, Girolamo Cardano,
75–6
Priestley, Joseph, 140
on uniform composition, 137
Puritan Revolution, 124
purple colour, and body, 64–5
quodlibetarian model, 11, 12
realism, 176
red corpuscles
Jan Swammerdam, Dutch anatomist, 188
Redi, Francesco (1626–97)
Esperienze Intorno all Generazione degli
Insetti (1665), 176–7
reductionism, 139, 140, 142
regularity and irregularity, 43
religion and satire, 55
religious ‘enthusiasm’, 124
Renaissance anatomy, 65
microcosm and macrocosm, 59
Renaissance man, 59
Renard, Maurice, L’homme truqué (1921), 194
Restoration, stability of, 125
Ridley, Humphrey, Anatomy of the Brain
(1695), 21
Roberts, Lewis, East India Company Presi-
dent, 1639–40, 60
The Merchant Mappe of Commerce
(1638), 60
Robinson, Thomas, from Ousby, Cumber-
land, 49
The Anatomy of the Earth (1694), 4, 40
anatomy of the earth, 43
on Book of Genesis 45
Burnet theory, 43–4
comparison between our planet and
bodies 41
on seismic processes 50
on tides, 46–7
rocks as skeletal matters, 42
Rogers, Thomas
The Anatomy of the Minde (1576), 54, 58
rotation of earth, 44
Rotman, Brian, on mathematical semiotics,
31–3
Royal Society, 161, 163
Russell, K. F.
British Anatomy: 1525–1800, 9
Ruysch, Frederik (1638–1731), injection
technique, 115
Rye House Plot, for assassination of Charles
II, 161
Sade, Marquis de, on La Peste (Zumbo), 176
Saint-Hilaire, Isidore Geoffroy
Traité de tératologie, 153
teratology, study of 145
Saints Cosmas and Damien, protectors of
medicine, 174
St Thomas’s Hospital, Southwark, 1703
Richard Mead, physician, 163
Sanctorius (1561–1636), professor of medi-
cine, Padua, 132
Santa Maria Novella, Basilica, Florence
altarpiece, 174
fresco Trinità, 173
satire in Anatomy of Melancholy, 23
Scaliger, Julius (1484–1558), on minima, 114
scholastic treatise and anatomical structure, 20
scientific principles of Hobbes, 102
sculpture, anatomic construction
Donatello, artist (1386–1466), 173–4
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seepage, 43 Stubbes, Philip, The Anatomy of Abuses

self-containment, self-knowledge, self-
scrutiny 59
self-sufficiency of physical body, 67
self-understanding, 85
sense of sight, importance, 151
senses, central role, 146
sensibility culture, 114, 126, 127
sensory input and mental life, 141
sexual excitement, 65
Shakespeare, William
The Tempest, Prospero’s island, 62
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein (1818), horror
film of, 194
Sherwin-Williams company logo, North
America, 37–8, 41, 46
skeleton, 80, 173
skin and muscle barriers, 66
skin of the earth, 40
skull drawing, anatomical detail
Gaetano Giulio Zumbo, 177
(1583), 54
subjectivity, 6
subtilitas, 71
subtlety, 4
sun and moon’s influence on bodies
Richard Mead, Influence of the Sun and
Moon on Human Bodies (1704), 163
sun as world’s heart, 63
surgery and anatomy study, 178
symbolic reference, medieval texts, 87
teleological purpose of body parts
the eye, 79
teleology, head structure, 82
teratology, study of malformation 145, 153
textile world
micro-structure of living body, 116–17
textual description and illustration, 14
The Holy War (1682), 96
Bunyan, battle of Revelations 10, 94–5
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slavery, 59 Towne of Mansoul, as female, 95
snakes, experiment with, 164 theological mortalism, 100
social contexts and the novel, 2 theology, 59
social order and fibre body, 125 thorax, 66
Socinians, 100 tides and moon, 46–7
soul, 141, 142 Tissot, Samuel, 38
anatomy of, The Holy War (1682), 96 tissue types, 118–19
body and, 131 Tossignano, Pietro da (c. 1364–1401),
as man or animal, 134 Consilium, 172
as quality of body, 139 toxins level in blood, 193
soul sleepers, 100 travel, investigative, 37–8
soul/mind, 140 travelling the world, 58
South East Asia, financial networks, 28 twin sisters, conjoined, Verona 1475
sovereign as soul of commonwealth, 108 shown in Italy, 151
Spenser, Edmund typographers in Venice, Fasciculus medicinae,
The Faerie Queene (1590), 4, 85–6 172
spermatozoids Tyson, Edward
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, 188 Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris, 1
spherical figure, 63
Underwood, Robert
Spinoza, Benedict de, 130
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), 58
spiritual entities, refusal of, 140
A New Anatomie (1610), 55–6, 68
steam pressure, 50
uniformity of nature, 123
Stevenson, Robert Louis universal didacticism, 55
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), horror
film of, 194 Valsalva, Anton Maria (1666–1723)
Stoicism, 74 Tractatus de aure humana (1704), 178, 182
Strode, George, The Anatomie of Mortalitie Varignana, Bartolomeo da (1260–1321)
(1618), 54 Bolognese School of body study, 172
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Vasari, Antonio, Ercole e Anteo, 171
vascularity of animal/human body, 115, 124
Vaucanson, Jacques de (1709–82), 129
duck, automaton , 131, 134
venous appendixes in womb, 182
Verne, Jules
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870),
192, 194
Verrocchio, Andrea del (1435–88)
taste for cruelty in works, 175
Vesalius, Andreas (1514–64), 12
De humani corporis fabrica (1543), 3, 4,
9–23, 76–9, 146, 148, 188
dissemination of anatomical knowledge,
89
text structure of, 13–14
Cardano’s personal acquaintance, 76
debt to Galen, 78
dissections, anatomical, 149
influence in England, 15–19
vessels in body, 115
vibration of body, 127
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Vicary, Thomas
The Anatomie of Man’s Bodie (1543), 53
Anatomie of the Bodie of Man (1548), 16
‘visceral circumstance’, 143
visual synopses, 20
vitalism, D’Alembert’s Dream (Diderot), 129
volcanic eruptions, 46–9
water, as life, 198
water circulation in earth
blood circulation in animals, 43
wax-injected specimens
Jan Swammerdam, Dutch anatomist, 159
Ruysch, Frederik (1638–1731), 160
wax injection into blood vessels, 178
wax modellers in Bologna, 171, 185
wax use in art, for body study, 175
wealth management, 26
weather, 46–7
Wells, H. G., The Invisible Man, film (1897),
194
William of Orange, the Stadholder, 160–1
willing, act of, in humans and animals, 103
Willis, Thomas, Four Distinct Coats of the
Artery, 118
nerves and sensory perceptions, 127
Pharmacertice rationalis (1679), 117
womb metamorphosis in pregnancy
wax models, 182
woodcut illustrations in De fabrica, 11
Woolton, John
A New Anatomie of Mans Bodie (1576),
58
A New Anatomie of the Whole Man
(1576), 54
world as smooth sphere, 43–4
world as volume, man as index, 62
Zumbo, Gaetano Giulio (1656–1701), 171
scientific art studies, 176
Sicilian artist and abbot, 175–7
Trionfo del Tempo, rotting bodies, 176
wax use in art, 175