The Courtiers’ Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris.
rom the perspective even of stay-at-home European naturalists in the seventeenth century, the world kept getting bigger as increasing animal, vegetable, and mineral evidence of its breadth and variety poured into metropolitan centers. At the same time, the technology of the microscope and the virtuo...
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| description | rom the perspective even of stay-at-home European naturalists in the seventeenth century, the world kept getting bigger as increasing animal, vegetable, and mineral evidence of its breadth and variety poured into metropolitan centers. At the same time, the technology of the microscope and the virtuoso practice of dissection (of living animals as well as corpses—Anita Guerrini argues that these practices were perceived as less distinct by her subjects, and by their private and public audiences, than has subsequently become the case) turned the attention of anatomists to things that were small and hidden. Written with interdisciplinary erudition and insight, The Courtiers’ Anatomists persuasively demonstrates that these modes of inquiry were neither independent nor inconsistent; on the contrary, they could be pursued at the same time by the same individuals. As her subtitle indicates, Guerrini does not attempt to survey Enlightenment science. Instead she focuses on a particular group of anatomists who were based in Paris and who enjoyed the support of Louis XIV. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1162912022-09-30T17:16:33Z The Courtiers’ Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris. Ritvo, Harriet Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. History Section Ritvo, Harriet Ritvo, Harriet rom the perspective even of stay-at-home European naturalists in the seventeenth century, the world kept getting bigger as increasing animal, vegetable, and mineral evidence of its breadth and variety poured into metropolitan centers. At the same time, the technology of the microscope and the virtuoso practice of dissection (of living animals as well as corpses—Anita Guerrini argues that these practices were perceived as less distinct by her subjects, and by their private and public audiences, than has subsequently become the case) turned the attention of anatomists to things that were small and hidden. Written with interdisciplinary erudition and insight, The Courtiers’ Anatomists persuasively demonstrates that these modes of inquiry were neither independent nor inconsistent; on the contrary, they could be pursued at the same time by the same individuals. As her subtitle indicates, Guerrini does not attempt to survey Enlightenment science. Instead she focuses on a particular group of anatomists who were based in Paris and who enjoyed the support of Louis XIV. 2018-06-13T19:00:29Z 2018-06-13T19:00:29Z 2017 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1084-5453 1930-8892 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116291 Ritvo, Harriet. “The Courtiers’ Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris. By Anita Guerrini.” Environmental History 22, 1 (October 2016): 165–167 © 2016 The Author https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6278-3571 en_US https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emw074 Environmental History Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Oxford University Press Prof. Ritvo via Ece Turnator |
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