Arts and science anatomists
Around the world, many ancient civilizations used nature as a source of medicine and studied anatomy through rituals and the dissection of corpses. Many Asian cultures also developed treatments by dissecting corpses from wars to study human structure. In ancient Greece and Rome, doctors documented human dissections and identified key anatomical structures, though many early theories contained mistakes. Claudius Galen's works dominated medicine for centuries, though he made some errors. During the Renaissance, advances like the printing press and human dissections helped artists and scientists further anatomical knowledge. Andreas Vesalius' work De Humani Corporis Fabrica was highly influential through its detailed depictions of human anatomy.
Arts and science anatomists
- 1. Arts and Science The history of the study of the human body in drawings www.naturalbornscientist.com Thanks to Google Images
- 2. Around the world, many different civilizations used nature as a source of medicine and learned how to prepare corpses for funerals and identified some organs through mystical rituals such as offers and sacrifices. www.naturalbornscientist.com
- 3. Many Asian cultures were interested on the human body and medicine, so they developed different treatments and processes to study the internal structure of humans through the dissection of corpses from the wars. There are still many drawings and manuscripts related to anatomy made with different ink colors and techniques. www.naturalbornscientist.com
- 4. WESTERN CULTURES (V Century BC) Greeks and romans documented human dissections and identified structures such as veins, arteries, nerves, tendons, and of course, organs. The word Anatomy comes from the greek word for cut. Many of them wrote treatises and made diagrams of compared anatomy by using animal corpses, and based on them, they wrote books explaining the procedure, but as they were more theoretical, many mistakes were settled as theories, even for centuries. Many of them were destroyed during the Bizantine period. Some of them were preserved in the Alexandria Library. Alcmaeon Empedocles Aristotle Herophilus Erasistratus www.naturalbornscientist.com
- 5. Claudius Galen. The authority of medicine for centuries (131 – 201 BC) Galen wrote more than 130 medical treatises based on compared anatomy and some philosophers, and his medicine was mainly sustained on the Humors (body fluids) such as blood, bile and phlegm. Away from his mistakes, he set many discoveries around human anatomy and oriented other scientists in their researches of the human body. www.naturalbornscientist.com
- 7. Mondino de Luzzi (1276-1326). Anathomia Corporis Humani www.naturalbornscientist.com
- 8. Renaissance. Arts and Science come to life At the end of the Middle Ages, Arts and Science had an incredible advance after the Scientific Revolution. • The invention of the printing press. • The development of perspective in art. • Human dissections to educate artists in the precise structure and musculature of the body. • Intellectual attitudes and empirical testing of theories by observation and experimentation. www.naturalbornscientist.com
- 12. Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) De Humani Corporis Fabrica www.naturalbornscientist.com
- 14. William Harvey (1578-1657) Anatomica de Motu Cordis www.naturalbornscientist.com