{"id":1588,"date":"2009-11-12T09:55:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T15:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2009-11-12T09:55:26","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T15:55:26","slug":"notes-from-the-rare-book-room-anatome-animalium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2009\/11\/12\/notes-from-the-rare-book-room-anatome-animalium\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the Rare Book Room &#8220;Anatome animalium&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1592 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2009\/11\/blasius560-sm2.jpg\" alt=\"Anatome animalium frontispiece\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2009\/11\/blasius560-sm2.jpg 637w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2009\/11\/blasius560-sm2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/strong><strong>Gerardus Blasius (1626?-1692?).\u00a0 <em>Anatome animalium<\/em>.\u00a0 Amsterdam, 1681.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Although Blasius was a practicing physician in Amsterdam, his real interest lay in anatomy and, in particular, comparative anatomy.\u00a0 He worked closely with philosophers and scientists such as John Locke, Jan Swammerdam, and Niels Stensen to promote the study of anatomy and to widen the availability of both animal and human remains for closer study.\u00a0 Balsius\u2019 1681 work\u00a0 is his most ambitious project and, according to historian Francis J. Cole, is the \u201cfirst comprehensive manual of comparative anatomy based on the original researches of a working anatomist\u2026\u201d\u00a0 While the author provides meticulously detailed descriptions of 119 species, it is the eye-catching images that capture the reader\u2019s attention.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2009\/11\/blasius560B-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1590 \" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2009\/11\/blasius560B-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2009\/11\/blasius560B-sm.jpg 652w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2009\/11\/blasius560B-sm-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Anatome animalium<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>As usual during this period, the artists and engravers receive no recognition and remain unknown, with the exception of the highly emblematic frontispiece which is the work of the Dutch illustrator and engraver Jan Luyken (1649-1712).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Gerardus Blasius (1626?-1692?).\u00a0 Anatome animalium.\u00a0 Amsterdam, 1681. \u00a0Although Blasius was a practicing physician in Amsterdam, his real interest lay in anatomy and, in particular, comparative anatomy.\u00a0 He worked closely with philosophers and scientists such as John Locke, Jan Swammerdam, and Niels Stensen to promote the study of anatomy and to widen the availability of both<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2009\/11\/12\/notes-from-the-rare-book-room-anatome-animalium\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Notes from the Rare Book Room &#8220;Anatome animalium&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}