"Orang-outangs" with anatomical diagrams of the brain

Pongo--anatomy & histology

Pan troglodytes--anatomy & histology

Brain--anatomy & histology

Anatomy, Comparative

Book Illustrations

Engraved by M. Van der Gucht.

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

Diagram depicting the brain of an "orang-outang" (i.e., chimpanzee) seen from above (fig.13) and cut horizontally to reveal interior (fig. 14). The image also includes drawings of various "orang-outangs", including, "a copy of the figure that Nicholaus Tulpius gives of the orang-outang that was brought to Holland form Angola," (fig. 15)--Cf. Tulp, Nicolaas. Observationes medicae; "the figure that Jacob[us] Bontius gives the orang-outang in Piso," (fig. 16)--Cf. Piso, Willem. De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica; "[a figure] taken out of Gesner, which he tells us, he met with in a German Book, wrote about the Holy Land," (fig. 17)--Cf. Gessner, Conrad. Historia animalium.

Title supplied by cataloger.

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.fig13-17

1 print : engraving

31 x 23