Courtiers' Anatomists

图书信息

作者	Guerrini, Anita
出版社	University of Chicago Press
ISBN	9780226248332
出版时间	2015-05-27
字数	78.2万
分类	University of Chicago Press,进口书,外文原版书,文学,自传,回忆录

读书简介

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, Anita Guerrini reveals how anatomy and natural history were connected through animal dissection and vivisection. Driven by an insatiable curiosity, Parisian scientists, with the support of the king, dissected hundreds of animals from the royal menageries and the streets of Paris. Guerrini is the first to tell the story of Joseph-Guichard Duverney, who performed violent, riot-inducing dissections of both animal and human bodies before the king at Versailles and in front of hundreds of spectators at the King's Garden in Paris. At the Paris Academy of Sciences, meanwhile, Claude Perrault, with the help of Duverney's dissections, edited two folios in the 1670s filled with lavish illustrations by court artists of exotic royal animals.Through the stories of Duverney and Perrault, as well as those of Marin Cureau de la Chambre, Jean Pecquet, and Louis Gayant, The Courtiers' Anatomists explores the relationships between empiricism and theory, human and animal, as well as the origins of the natural history museum and the relationship between science and other cultural activities, including art, music, and literature.

目录

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

A Note on Names, Dates, and Other Matters

Abbreviations Used in the Notes

List of Illustrations

Introduction

ONE / Anatomists and Courtiers

TWO / The Anatomical Origins of the Paris Academy of Sciences

THREE / The Animal Projects of the Paris Academy of Sciences

FOUR / The Histoire des animaux

FIVE / Perrault, Duverney, and Animal Mechanism

SIX / The Courtiers’ Anatomist: Duverney at the Jardin du roi

Conclusion

Epilogue: The Afterlife of the Histoire des animaux

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index