JF Ptak Science Books Post 1367
| This is the first installment of a chronology of the anatomical representation of the heart, along with a few metaphorical images tossed in. No commentary yet–just a quick post. All images are either from the Wellcome Institute or the National Library of Medicine. (I’m not sure that I’ve seen a timeline of these images before…) | |
14th Century
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Mansur ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yusuf
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ibn Faqih, author. fl. 14th c.,
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[1488]
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Tashrih al-badan.
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Ca. 1440
“Woodblock illustration from Zhengtong daozang (Daoist Canon compiled during the Zhengtong reign period [1436-1449] of the Ming Dynasty), depicting the ‘internal topography’ (neijing) of the human body from the front and back view.”