Anatomy and Anatomists in Early Modern Spain

Taking the Vesalian anatomical revolution as its point of departure, this volume charts the apparent rise and fall of anatomy studies within universities in sixteenth-century Spain, focusing particularly on primary sources from 1550 to 1600. In doing so, it both clarifies the Spanish contribution to the field of anatomy and disentangles the distort

List of contents

1: Early Modern Spanish Anatomy and ‘La polémica de la ciencia española'; 2: Valencia; 3: Salamanca; 4: Valladolid; 5: Alcalá de Henares; 6: Barcelona; 7: Zaragoza; 8: Beyond the Universities; 9: Beyond Iberia; 10: Images of Spanish Renaissance Anatomy; Conclusion

About the author

Bjørn Okholm Skaarup received his PhD from the European University Institute, Florence in 2009 and conducted post-doctoral research at the Warburg Institute, UK, and Columbia University, USA. He is also an artist whose work has been exhibited internationally.

Summary

Taking the Vesalian anatomical revolution as its point of departure, this volume charts the apparent rise and fall of anatomy studies within universities in sixteenth-century Spain, focusing particularly on primary sources from 1550 to 1600. In doing so, it both clarifies the Spanish contribution to the field of anatomy and disentangles the distort

Product details

• Authors: Bjørn Okholm Skaarup
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032923055
• ISBN: 978-1-032-92305-5
• No. of pages: 298
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: The History of Medicine in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, HISTORY / World, MEDICAL / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, General & world history, History of Medicine, c 1500 onwards to present day, Archaeology, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Language: reference & general, Language: reference and general, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, History and Archaeology, C 1600 To C 1700, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards