Menschliches Skelet

Skeleton

Bone and Bones

Book Illustrations

From a drawing by Haeckel (?)

Depiction of the human skeleton from the right side, without arms (Figure 162) and the whole human skeleton from the front (figure 163).

Title from table of contents.

Haeckel, Ernst, 1834-1919

Bach, J. G.

Original image in: Haeckel, Ernst, 1834-1919. Anthropogenie, oder, Entwickelungsgeschichte des menschen (Leipzig : Wilhelm Engelmann, 1874). Bc 25a (Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

Ernst Haeckel's Anthropogenie, oder, Entwickelungsgeschichte des menschen, a simplified embryology textbook focusing on ontogeny and phylogeny, was first published in 1874. Challenged on the accuracy of its embryological illustrations and it's promotion of the recently developed theories of Darwin, the book's publication was the subject of much controversy. Many of the work's embryological illustrations were borrowed from previous textbooks, along with a few originals by Haeckel himself.

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

1874

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StillImage

Bc_25a.571

1 print : woodcut

23 x 15 cm