Encyclopaedia Anatomica

Encyclopaedia Anatomica
Author: Monika von Düring
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9783836549318

With 27 wax bodies and 1500 part and organ studies, this is a veritable cathedral to the human form. Whether it be the skeleton, or vein structures, organs or nerves, arteries or the complexities of the skin, all are reproduced here, in detail.

Encyclopaedia anatomica

Encyclopaedia anatomica
Author: Monika von Düring
Publisher: Taschen America Llc
Total Pages: 703
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9783822838488

The unique wax figure collection of La Specola in Florence, started by the Medicis and brought together and catalogued in the 18th Century.

Bergman's Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation

Bergman's Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation
Author: R. Shane Tubbs
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 1452
Release: 2016-07-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1118430352

Building on the strength of the previous two editions, Bergman's Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation is the third installment of the classic human anatomical reference launched by Dr. Ronald Bergman. With both new and updated entries, and now illustrated in full color, the encyclopedia provides an even more comprehensive reference on human variation for anatomists, anthropologists, physicians, surgeons, medical personnel, and all students of anatomy. Developed by a team of editors with extensive records publishing on both human variation and normal human anatomy, Bergman's Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation is the long awaited update to this classic reference.

Ephemeral Bodies

Ephemeral Bodies
Author: Julius Ritter von Schlosser
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780892368778

The critical history of wax is fraught with gaps and controversies. These eight essays explore wax reproductions of the body or body parts throughout history, and assess their conceptual ambiguity, material impermanence, and implications for the history of western art.

The Anatomical Venus

The Anatomical Venus
Author: Morbid Anatomy Museum
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2016-05-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0500773262

Beneath the original Venetian glass and rosewood case at La Specola in Florence lies Clemente Susini's Anatomical Venus (c. 1790), a perfect object whose luxuriously bizarre existence challenges belief. It - or, better, she - was conceived of as a means to teach human anatomy without need for constant dissection, which was messy, ethically fraught and subject to quick decay. This life-sized wax woman is adorned with glass eyes and human hair and can be dismembered into dozens of parts revealing, at the final remove, a beatific foetus curled in her womb. Sister models soon appeared throughout Europe, where they not only instructed the specialist students, but also delighted the general public. Deftly crafted dissectable female wax models and slashed beauties of the world's anatomy museums and fairgrounds of the 18th and 19th centuries take centre stage in this disquieting volume. Since their creation in late 18th-century Florence, these wax women have seduced, intrigued and amazed. Today, they also confound, troubling the edges of our neat categorical divides: life and death, science and art, body and soul, effigy and pedagogy, spectacle and education, kitsch and art. Incisive commentary and captivating imagery reveal the evolution of these enigmatic sculptures from wax effigy to fetish figure and the embodiment of the uncanny.

Great Texas Birds

Great Texas Birds
Author: John P. O'Neill
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1999
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0292760531

Presents color reproductions of forty-eight Texas birds selected as the personal favorites of illustrator John O'Neill and editor Suzanne Winckler, each accompanied by a personal, scientific, or literary observation by a well-known Texas birder or nature writer.

Anatomic Study of the Clitoris and the Bulbo-Clitoral Organ

Anatomic Study of the Clitoris and the Bulbo-Clitoral Organ
Author: Vincent Di Marino
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2014-05-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3319048945

This eagerly awaited book offers a unique, comprehensive scientific study of the anatomy of the organ of female sexual pleasure. The authors use macroscopic and microscopic research to guide the reader from the glans, the visible part of the clitoris, where they explore the impressive sensory corpuscles, to the hidden roots of the bulbo-clitoral organ. They show its complexity, its exact location within the external genitalia and its intimate relationship with the urethro-vaginal pyramid. They also remind us that throughout history there has been a failure to understand this organ and explain that this misunderstanding remains the cause of persistent excisions, criminal mutilating practices that have not yet been eradicated. Using extensive iconography, they demonstrate throughout this book that the bulbo-clitoral organ is an exceptional natural treasure that every woman possesses and that every man should know well.

The Anatomical Exercises

The Anatomical Exercises
Author: William Harvey
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 241
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0486688275

Classic of science reports how Harvey's theory of the circulation of the blood came into being. Reproduces the English translation made during Harvey's lifetime.

Local News

Local News
Author: Diane Keaton
Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1999
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Actress Diane Keaton pulls the sheet off the sensational pictures of the notorious, Hearst-owned "Herald Express, " with 92 startling tabloid photos that shine historical light on the darker side of the City of Angels.