Mapping the human body
One of the most remarkable works in the whole history of anatomy: J.M. Bourgery's Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery
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It would henceforth no longer be possible to think of anatomy without illustrations. Among the most outstanding anatomical works of the 16th century, we might mention that by Charles Estienne (c.1504-1564), De dissectione partium corporis humani, which was published in Paris in 1545, comprising 62 woodcut plates and numerous vignettes in the text. For the 17th century, we should mention the work of Giulio Casserio alias Julius Casserius (c.1550-1616), Tabulae anatomicae, published posthumously in Venice in 1627 with 97 copperplate engravings by Francesco Valesio after Odoardo Fialetti, a painter in Tintoretto's circle. In the 18th century, numerous outstanding works on anatomy illustrated with copperplate engravings appeared, but often they were confined to some specialized aspect of the subject. We should mention the extraordinary works printed in color by Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty (1710-1785), in part in collaboration with the surgeon J. F. Duverney: Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle, with 20 plates (Paris, 1746), Anatomie de la tête, with 8 plates (Paris, 1748), Anatomie générale des viscères et de la névrologie, angéologie et ostéologie du corps humain, with 18 plates (Paris, 1754), and Exposition anatomique de la structure du corps humain, with 20 plates (Marseilles, 1759). The Complete treatise of human anatomy by J.M. Bourgery and N.H. Jacob, while joining a long list of illustrated works, at the same time represents one of the most remarkable works in the whole history of anatomy, and in any case is the most outstanding to be published in the 19th century.
Jean Marc Bourgery: The man behind the masterwork
Jean Marc Bourgery, born in Orléans on 27 May, 1797, was the son of Marc Claude Bourgery, haberdasher, and Madeleine Marthe Delaboulaye. Bourgery chose to study medicine. In 1815, he also enrolled to attend the course of the famous naturalist Jean Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829), then professor at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. Following the internship competition, Bourgery was accepted as an intern at the Hospitals from 1817 to 1820, and in 1819 received the Gold Internship Medal. At the end of his medical course, Bourgery did not take his doctorate, apparently because of a lack of funds, and instead served as medical officer at the copper foundries in Romilly-sur-Seine (Aube department) for several years.
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It would henceforth no longer be possible to think of anatomy without illustrations. Among the most outstanding anatomical works of the 16th century, we might mention that by Charles Estienne (c.1504-1564), De dissectione partium corporis humani, which was published in Paris in 1545, comprising 62 woodcut plates and numerous vignettes in the text. For the 17th century, we should mention the work of Giulio Casserio alias Julius Casserius (c.1550-1616), Tabulae anatomicae, published posthumously in Venice in 1627 with 97 copperplate engravings by Francesco Valesio after Odoardo Fialetti, a painter in Tintoretto's circle. In the 18th century, numerous outstanding works on anatomy illustrated with copperplate engravings appeared, but often they were confined to some specialized aspect of the subject. We should mention the extraordinary works printed in color by Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty (1710-1785), in part in collaboration with the surgeon J. F. Duverney: Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle, with 20 plates (Paris, 1746), Anatomie de la tête, with 8 plates (Paris, 1748), Anatomie générale des viscères et de la névrologie, angéologie et ostéologie du corps humain, with 18 plates (Paris, 1754), and Exposition anatomique de la structure du corps humain, with 20 plates (Marseilles, 1759). The Complete treatise of human anatomy by J.M. Bourgery and N.H. Jacob, while joining a long list of illustrated works, at the same time represents one of the most remarkable works in the whole history of anatomy, and in any case is the most outstanding to be published in the 19th century.
Jean Marc Bourgery: The man behind the masterwork
Jean Marc Bourgery, born in Orléans on 27 May, 1797, was the son of Marc Claude Bourgery, haberdasher, and Madeleine Marthe Delaboulaye. Bourgery chose to study medicine. In 1815, he also enrolled to attend the course of the famous naturalist Jean Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829), then professor at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. Following the internship competition, Bourgery was accepted as an intern at the Hospitals from 1817 to 1820, and in 1819 received the Gold Internship Medal. At the end of his medical course, Bourgery did not take his doctorate, apparently because of a lack of funds, and instead served as medical officer at the copper foundries in Romilly-sur-Seine (Aube department) for several years.
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Atlas of Anatomy
Hardcover, 29 x 40.5 cm (11.4 x 15.9 in.), 714 pages
$ 200.00
$ 200.00
Mapping the human body: Bourgery's monumental and unsurpassed treatise
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