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Shews the muscles of the back-part of the body

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Title

Shews the muscles of the back-part of the body
Shows the muscles of the back-part of the body

Subject

Pongo--anatomy & histology
Pan troglodytes--anatomy & histology
Muscle, Skeletal--anatomy & histology
Book Illustrations

Description

Engraved by M. Van der Gucht.
After a drawing by William Cowper--Cf. Montagu, A. Edward Tyson, p. 225.
Diagram of an "orang-outang" (i.e., chimpanzee) seen from the back with skin removed to expose the muscles (fig. 4).
Title from explanation of the figures.

Creator

Gucht, Michael van der, 1660-1725
Cowper, William, 1666-1709

Source

Original image in: Tyson, Edward, 1650-1708. Orang-outang (London : Printed for T. Bennett and D. Brown, and are to be had of Mr. Hunt, 1699). ZZAb 2 (Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
Orang-outang, Sive Homo Sylvestris, or the Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared with that of a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man by Edward Tyson, was the first published anatomy of an ape. The animal that Tyson refers to as an "orang-outang" and "pygmie" is actually most likely an African chimpanzee. Tyson used the ape's anthropoid features to establish a hierarchical relationship between monkeys, apes, and humans, foreshadowing theories of evolution and first formulating the idea of the missing link. It contains 8 folded plates engraved by Michael van der Gucht after drawings by William Cowper.

Publisher

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

Date

1699

Language

eng

Type

StillImage

Identifier

ZZAb_2.fig4

Original Format

1 print : engraving

Physical Dimensions

38 x 24

Citation

Gucht, Michael van der, 1660-1725 and Cowper, William, 1666-1709, “Shews the muscles of the back-part of the body,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed March 29, 2024, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/256.