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A celebration of visual culture as well as a contribution to the history of the human body. It aims to explore the strategies developed in the 18th century for making visible the unseeable aspects of the world. In the process it uncovers and analyzes a set of body metaphors.
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 1993The MIT Press · 612 pages · 9780262691659
- Other · English · 1991MIT Press · 587 pages · 9780262193047
Medicine and artBody imageAnatomy, ArtisticArtistic AnatomyEnlightenmentHistoryMedicine in the ArtsMédecine et art