The Courtiers' Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV's Paris - Anita Guerrini - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226247663 - May 27, 2015
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Anita Guerrini
The Courtiers' Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV's Paris

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Explores the relationships between empiricism and theory, human and animal. The author reveals how anatomy and natural history were connected through animal dissection and vivisection. She tell the story of Joseph-Guichard Duverney, who performed violent, riot-inducing dissections of both animal and human bodies before the king at Versailles.

352 pages, 35 halftones

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released May 27, 2015
ISBN13 9780226247663
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Genre Cultural Region > French
Pages 352
Dimensions 238 × 163 × 29 mm   ·   628 g
Language English  

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