Cerebrum craßa meninge obtectum exhibet

Eâ detectum, cum eius tertio per medium diuiso, tenui tamen meninge adhuc obuolutum proponit

Brain--anatomy & histology

Meninges--anatomy & histology

Book Illustrations

Male head with top of skull open to depict the brain with the meninges covering (fig. 1), and the brain with a portion of the meninges peeled back (fig. 2).

Title from caption.

Original image in: Bauhin, Caspar, 1560-1624. Theatrum anatomicum (Francofurti at [sic] Moenum : Typis Matthaei Beckeri, 1605). Ac 181 (Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

Theatrum anatomicum, Caspar Bauhin's 1605 anatomical textbook, contains 131 copper engravings of human anatomy drawn mostly from the illustrations of others. Although the diagrams were not original, the book was notable at the time as a thorough, cutting-edge anatomical compendium. In this work, Bauhin introduced a new labeling system, naming anatomical structures instead of numbering them, a system quickly adopted by others.

Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

1605

lat

StillImage

Ac_181.549

1 print : copper engraving

16 x 9 cm