… du Roi, where Duverney dissected animals and the natural history museum … the anatomy
of existing animals correctly, leaving the history of the depiction of fanciful and mythical animals …

… Her book opens with a description of the Paris of the anatomists and the local … the relations
between anatomists and courtiers. In the late sixteenth century, anatomy teachers had begun …

… Guerrini’s other actors are animals whose role as human stand-ins speaks to a Galenic …
-century dissector emerges as anatomist-physiologist. The Courtiers’ Anatomists is a welcome …

… all contributed to our understanding of human and animal bodies. Animals both living and
dead … The first chapter introduces the origins and journeys of dead bodies (animal and human) …

598 REVIEWS royales de Vincennes et de Versailles. AVersailles, les animaux sont d’ailleurs
partout, et l’anatomie aussi travaille ala gloire de Louis le Grand. L’Académie réalise dans …

… Guerrini shows how dissection and comparative anatomy were key to the development of …
The Courtiers' Anatomists not only tells the story of the epistemic and moral value of animals …

… human and animal anatomy as it was practised in the Paris of Louis XIV. She describes hurried
dissections of decomposing animals … ; exploration of human and animal cadavers in the …

… The anatomy of different species of animals; an anatomy which compares humans and
animals to record structural similarities and differences; a renewed anatomy of fine parts, visible …

… Both the richness and the complexity of Guerrini’s The Courtiers’ Anatomists suggest why this
… into the Scientific Revolution, The Courtiers’ Anatomists offers an important amplification of …

… have not inconsiderable cognitive abilities; and animal-human companionship includes …
of humans’ sharing the world with other species. Ingrid Tague argues that “pets helped people …