The Anatomy Of Humane Bodies, With Figures Drawn After The Life By some Of The Best Masters in Europe, And Curiously Engraven In One Hundred and Fourteen Copper Plates, Illustrated With Large Explications, Containing Many New Anatomical Discoveries, And Chirurgical Observations: To Which Is Added An Introduction Explaining The Animal Oeconomy, With A Copious Index. By William Cowper.
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The ingenious machine of nature: four centuries of art and anatomy, ed. M. Cazort et al. [exhibition catalogue] (1996), nos. 72-74.4
K.B. Roberts and J.D.W. Tomlinson, The fabric of the body: European traditions of anatomical illustration (1992)
C. Gysel, 'L'Anatomia de Govert Bidloo (1685) et le plagiat de William Cowper (1698)', in Revue Belge de médecine dentaire, 42 (1987), p.96-101
F.F. Buckman and J.W. Futrell, 'William Cowper', in Surgery 99:5 (1986), p. 582-590
P. Dumaitre, La curieuse destinée des planches anatomiques de Gérard de Lairesse (1982)
F. Beekman, 'Bidloo and Cowper, anatomists', in Annals of medical history, new ser. 7 (1935), p.113-129.
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Atlases - Manuals - Great Britain - 17th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 17th century
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Samuel Smith, publisher
Benjamin Walford, publisher
John Smith, engraver
I. Short, engraver
H. Cook, draughtsman
Michael van der Gucht, engraver
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, dedicatee
Gerard de Lairesse, draughtsman
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Portrait of William Cowper, 1698
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Frontispiece, 1698
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Title page, 1698
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Plate 1: The male body (front)
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Plate 2: The female body (front)
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Plate 3: The female body (back)
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Plate 21: Organs contained in the thorax
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Plate 23: System of arteries of a six month old infant
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Plate 25: Wind Pipe and Bronchia
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Plate 71: Muscles employed in extending the wrist
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Plate 87: Skeleton (front)
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Plate 88: Skeleton (back)
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Plate 89: Frontal bone of the skull
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Plate 92: Skull, jaw and teeth
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Plate 101: Nine month fetus skeleton
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Appendix Plate 1: External muscles of a body , 1698
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Appendix Plate 3: System of arteries of a fetus