Introduction

PRESCRIBED SOURCES

Core text:

William Harvey, De motu cordis, trans. R. Willis, in Harvey, Works, (1847), pp. 3–86. Available on archive.org: (1) title page, (2) table of contents, and (3) text (84 pp.); (4) original engravings.

Backround material

Oster, Science in Europe, 20-22, 39-44, 94-5, 109-11 (c. 15 pp.):

• Galen on anatomical procedures (1.4-5, pp. 20-22)
• Andreas Vesalius, On the Fabric of the Human Body (1543), preface (2.3, pp. 39-44)
• Cornelius Agrippa, On the Occult Philosophy (1510): on medical astrology (6.2, pp. 94-5)
• Oswald Croll, On the internal signatures of things (1608): on correspondences between the macrocosm and the microcosm ( 6.9, pp. 109-11)

Oxford University Statutes, trans. Ward: ‘The Statutes and Ordinances … for the foundation and institution of an Anatomical Lecture, by … Richard Tomlins … A.D. 1623’, vol. I, 288-92 (4 pp.); on archive.org and Canvas.

David Loggan, Oxonia illustrata (1675), plate XII: Botanical Garden.

Resources

Ars Anatomica: Imaging the Renaissance Body: a virtual exhibition by the Edinburgh University Library and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh with an image gallery for ease of navigation.

Anatomia 1522-1867: Anatomical Plates from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, featuring 4500 full page plates from 95 different titles.

Image: Entrance to the Schola medicinae, Schools Quadrangle (1613-24), Oxford. Photo: Howard Hotson, 25 Feb. 2017.