Human Body Collection

De humani corporis fabrica (Of the Structure of the Human Body), 1555

Influence of the Universe, the Macrocosm, on Man, the Microcosm, 1678. From Mundus Subterraneus by Athanasius Kircher. (Amsterdam, 1678)

Interiorum corporis humani partium viva delineatio, from the second edition of the... 1555/59. Creator: Monogrammist R
Interiorum corporis humani partium viva delineatio, from the second edition of the Compendiosa totius anatomie delineation, 1555/59

Back nude, head to the left, 1925. Creator: Josef Wawra
Back nude, head to the left, 1925

Six female nudes, 1930. Creator: Franz Barwig the Elder
Six female nudes, 1930

Nude study, 1925. Creator: Josef Wawra
Nude study, 1925

Nude study in dance pose, 1925. Creator: Josef Wawra
Nude study in dance pose, 1925

Eight male nudes, 1922. Creator: Franz Barwig the Elder
Eight male nudes, 1922. Studies for the life-size, gilded wooden sculpture of a young man (1922/23)

Eight male nudes, 1922. Creator: Franz Barwig the Elder
Eight male nudes, 1922. Studies for the life-size, gilded wooden sculpture of a young man (1922/23)

A Survey of the Microcosme or the Anatomie of the Bodies of Man and Woman wherein the Skin... 1675
A Survey of the Microcosme or the Anatomie of the Bodies of Man and Woman wherein the Skin, Veins, Nerves, Muscles, Bones, Sinews and Ligaments Thereof are Accurately Delineated

Regole per Imparar a Disegnar i corpi humani... Giacomo Palma Libro P... 1636 (republished 1659). Creator: Jacopo Palma
Regole per Imparar a Disegnar i corpi humani... Giacomo Palma Libro Primo (title page and 7 plates), bound together with Libro Secondo (title page and 11 plates), 1636 (republished 1659)

Underweissung der Proportzion und stellung der possen, 1538. Creator: Erhard Schon
Underweissung der Proportzion und stellung der possen, 1538. [Male nudes drawn geometrically]

Plate for the ‘Atlas Anatomico (unpublished), Plate ca. 1680-9
Plate for the Atlas Anatomico (unpublished), Plate ca. 1680-94; printed 1740

De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres, 1545

The Reward of Cruelty, plate IV from The Four Stages of Cruelty, 1833. Artist
The Reward of Cruelty, plate IV from The Four Stages of Cruelty, 1833; showing Tom Nero, having been hanged for murder and undergoing dissection theatre

The Reward of Cruelty, plate IV from The Four Stages of Cruelty, 1751. Tom Nero, having been hanged for murder is undergoing dissection theatre

Myographia Nova: or a Graphical Description of all the Muscles in Humane Body, As they are in Dissection, 1697. From Myographia Nova: or a Graphical Description of all the Muscles in Humane Body

Rene Descartes diagram of the human brain and eye, 1692. From Opera Philosophica by Rene Descartes. (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1692). Originally published in his Tractatus de homine. (Paris, 1664)

Rene Descartes illustration of the co-ordination of the senses, 1692. A visual stimulus travelling from the eye to the pineal gland, H, stops attention being given to an olfactory stimulus

Rene Descartes idea of vision, showing the function of the eye, optic nerve and brain, 1692. From Opera Philosophica by Rene Descartes. (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1692)

Descartes representation of the antagonistic eye muscles, 1692. When E is relaxed A is innervated. Rene Decartes (1596-1650)

X-raying the hand, 1924. An X-ray tube and an X-ray photograph of a hand, with the bones and a wristwatch and ring clearly visible. Cigarette card

Descartes illustration of how the distance of an object is perceived with binocular vision, 1692
Descartes (1596-1650) illustration of how the distance of an object is perceived with binocular vision, 1692. From Rene Descartes Opera Philosophica (Tractatus de Homine), 1692

Descartes explanation of vision, 1692. Light rays being passed through the eye, being focused by the lens (I) and forming images T, S, R on the retina

Descartes idea of vision, 1692
Descartes (1596-1650) idea of vision, [1692]. The passage of nervous impulses from the eye to the pineal gland and so to the muscles. From Rene Descartes Opera Philosophica (Tractatus de homine), 1692

Descartes idea of how eye passes impulse to brain and so directs a voluntary movement, 1692. French philosopher and scientist Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

Involuntary movement, Descartes idea of how impulses from the limbs reach the brain, 1692. French philosopher and scientist Rene Descartes (1596-1650) believed all nerves to be hollow

Death triumphant, 1493. From Liber chronicarum mundi (Nuremberg Chronicle), by Hartmann Schedel. The depiction of the skeletons is anatomically inaccurate, especially the bones of the pelvis

Circulation of the blood, 1628. English physician William Harvey (1578-1657) was the first to correctly describe the mechanism whereby blood is circulated in the body

An astrological chart, 1646. Artist: Athanasius Kircher
An astrological chart, 1646. A man with his internal organs revealed standing in front of a circular chart. One hand has been replaced by a sun

Foetus in uterus at time of quickening when first fetal movements are felt by the mother, c1795
Foetus in the uterus at the time of quickening (16-18 weeks) when the first fetal movements are felt by the mother, c1795

Acupuncture chart for the rear of the body, Japanese, 19th century

Acupuncture chart for the front of the body, Japanese, 19th century

Acupuncture chart, 19th century

Relationship of the organs of the body, the Humours and signs of the Zodiac, 1508. For example, Leo sole house of the Sun governs the heart - hence the term Lion-Hearted

The second plate of the muscles, from Book II of De humani corporis fabrica, 1543. Artist: Andreas Vesalius
The second plate of the muscles, from Book II of Andreas Vesalius De humani corporis fabrica, Basel, 1543. Engraving

Plate showing muscles and contents of the abdomem, 1648. Artist: Pietro Berrettino
Plate showing muscles and contents of the abdomem. From Pietro Berrettino Tabulae Anatomicae... Rome, 1741. Plates executed 1648. Engrraving

Six Chakras representing the plexuses of the human body, Tanjore, Tamil Nadu, c1850

Terracotta vase with human figures, Syria, Middle Bronze Age, 2000 - 1600 BC
Terracotta vase with human figures, Syria, Middle Bronze Age, 2000-1600 BC. Now in The Louvre

Anatomical illustration, 1564. Creator: Heinrich Lautensack
Anatomical illustration, 1564. From Des Circkels unnd Richtscheyts, auch der Perspectiva und Proportion der Menschen und Rosse, kurtze, doch grundtliche underweisung desz rechten gebrauchs

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