Represents the sceleton, or the bones

Represents the skeleton, or the bones

Pongo--anatomy & histology

Pan troglodytes--anatomy & histology

Skeleton

Book Illustrations

Engraved by M. Van der Gucht.

After a drawing by William Cowper--Cf. Montagu, A. Edward Tyson, p. 225.

Diagram of the skeleton of an "orang-outang" (i.e., chimpanzee) seen from the front (fig. 5).

Title from explanation of the figures.

Gucht, Michael van der, 1660-1725

Cowper, William, 1666-1709

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.

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

1699

eng

StillImage

ZZAb_2.fig5

1 print : engraving

36 x 21