The Courtiers' Anatomists is about dead bodies and live animals in Louis XIV's Paris--and
the surprising links between them. Examining the practice of seventeenth-century anatomy …

From around 1650 until well into the nineteenth century, Frederik Ruysch enjoyed
international fame as an anatomist. He owed his renown to a preparation method that …

Here I analyze the anatomical thought of the French physician and naturalist Félix Vicq
d'Azyr (1748–1794) in order to bring to light its importance in the development of …

This essay examines two paintings of Dr. Frederik Ruysch (1638–1731) conducting public
anatomy lessons in the Amsterdam dissecting theater. Painted by Adrian Backer and Jan …

Between 1633 and 1642, the French physician and philanthropist Théophraste Renaudot
sponsored a series of public conferences in Paris. These conferences offered an open forum …

This chapter examines the debates on animal experimentation and especially vivisection in
the 1820s, not to trace direct influences on Mary Shelley and her famous book, but to give …

In 1775, a visitor to Laurent Spinacuta's Grande Ménagerie at the annual winter fair in Paris
would have seen two tigers, several kinds of monkeys, an armadillo, an ocelot, and a condor …

" Lévi-Strauss is a French savant par excellence, a man of extraordinary sensitivity and
human wisdom... a deliberate stylist with profound convictions and convincing …

Page 1 Early Modern Zoology Page 2 Intersections Yearbook for Early Modern Studies
General Editor Karl AE Enenkel Chair of Neo-Latin Literature Faculty of Arts, University of …

U TNTIL THE LATE SECOND EMPIRE, anthropology was an ambiguous term in French
usage. Along with the competing neologisms ethnology and ethnography, anthropology was …