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The lady anatomist : the life and work of Anna Morandi Manzolini / Rebecca Messbarger.
LIBRA QM16.M35 M47 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Messbarger, Rebecca Marie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manzolini, Anna Morandi.
- Anatomists--Italy--Biography.
- Anatomists.
- Wax-modeling--Italy--History.
- Wax-modeling.
- History.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 234 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Introduction: changing the angle of vision
- The pope's anatomy museum
- Professing anatomy
- Re-casting
- The lady anatomist
- Esse est percipi: hands and eyes
- Beneath the fig leaf: the male reproductive system and genitalia
- Cessio ac venditi: the final years and the end of an age.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780226520810
- 0226520811
- OCLC:
- 460936174
- Publisher Number:
- 99940908758
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