Nerves of the Pancreas (R Renal Branches (CN X) Nerve)
Fascination BODY WORLDS – Experience a journey under your skin!
Taken from life: Victorian death photos
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Now You Can Download 2,500 Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Library of Congress
Hanaoka Seishu’s Surgical Casebook
Japanese Surgical casebook Hanaoka: Kishitsu geryō zukan
Late 1700s/early 1800s
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Spectacular Visualizations of Brain Scans Enhanced with 1,750 Pieces of Gold Leaf
Anyone who thinks that scientists can’t be artists need look no further than Dr. Greg Dunn and Dr. Brian Edwards. The neuroscientist and applied physicist have paired together to create an artistic series of images that the artists describe as “the most fundamental self-portrait ever created.” Literally going inside, the pair has blown up a thin slice of the brain 22 times in a series called Self-Reflected.
Traveling across 500,000 neurons, the images took two years to complete. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Dunn and Edwards developed special technology for the project. Using a technique they’ve called reflective microetching, they microscopically manipulated the reflectivity of the brain’s surface. Different regions of the brain were hand painted and digitized, later using a computer program created by Edwards to show the complex choreography our mind undergoes as it processes information.
Spectacular Visualizations of Brain Scans Enhanced with 1,750 Pieces of Gold Leaf
The Fasciculus Medicinae: An Introduction to the Images and Texts | Facendo Il Libro
The Fasciculus medicinae—literally, the “little bundle of medicine”—is a small group of independently-authored medical treatises and illustrations first printed in 1491. Remarkable as one of the earliest illustrated medical books to be printed, the Fasciculus was reprinted in dozens of different editions and translated into the major European vernacular languages into the 1520s. The Fasciculus also serves as an important witness to a dynamic period of change, reflecting both medieval medical ideas and new advances spurred by the humanistic surge associated with the Renaissance. This is perhaps best illustrated by the inclusion of the first printed scene of human dissection, an indication of the growing importance of empirical investigations of the interior. The images attached to the Fasciculus are a blend of diagrams copied from medieval manuscripts alongside newer, narrative-based scenes demonstrating the modern taste for classical styles in figures and interiors.
The Fasciculus Medicinae: An Introduction to the Images and Texts | Facendo Il Libro
Reading Visual Cultures 