[The human body and the library as sources of knowledge]

[The human body and the library as sources of knowledge]

Interior view of a library with allegorical figures; a body rests on a dissections table in center; a skeleton stands in an alcove to the right; surgical instruments are arranged on a pedestal in the foreground; bookshelves fill the background.

Is part of: Tabulae anatomicae, frontispiece.; See related catalog record: 2691968R
Extent:
1 print
Technique:
engraving

Kulmus, Johann Adam, 1689-1745, author

NLM
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101436207

Amstelaedami: Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1732

Frontispiece for anatomical tract, originally written by Johann Adam Kulmus (born in Danzig and studied medicine in Halle, Strassburg and Basel, lecturer at the Gymnasium in Danzig) and printed in Amsterdam by Janssonio-Waesbergios as "Tabulae anatomicae" in Latin, trans. to Anatomische Tabellen in 1740 where it was published in Nuremberg, Frankfurt, Leipzig.

Other known publications:
Utrecht : N. a Vucht, etc., 1755. (Latin; includes extra preface and frontispiece of the flayed man with dissected parts that appears later in the original anatomical atlas)
Rome : Heirs of J.L. Barbiellini, 1765. (Latin; one copy notes that the original pub. in Amsterdam)
Amsterdam : Dekker & Nordemann, 1978. (Dutch; in the series "the dawn of Japanese medical science")