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The Courtiers' Anatomists is about dead bodies and live animals in Louis XIV's Paris--and the surprising links between them. Examining the practice of seventeenth-century anatomy, Anita Guerrini reveals how anatomy and natural history were connected through animal dissection and vivisection. Driven by an insatiable curiosity, Parisian scientists, with the support of the king, dissected hundreds of animals from the royal menageries and the streets of Paris. Guerrini is the first to tell the story of Joseph-Guichard Duverney, who performed violent, riot-inducing dissections of both animal and human bodies before the king at Versailles and in front of hundreds of spectators at the King's Garden in Paris. At the Paris Academy of Sciences, meanwhile, Claude Perrault, with the help of Duverney's dissections, edited two folios in the 1670s filled with lavish illustrations by court artists of exotic royal animals.
Through the stories of Duverney and Perrault, as well as those of Marin Cureau de la Chambre, Jean Pecquet, and Louis Gayant, The Courtiers' Anatomists explores the relationships between empiricism and theory, human and animal, as well as the origins of the natural history museum and the relationship between science and other cultural activities, including art, music, and literature.
Through the stories of Duverney and Perrault, as well as those of Marin Cureau de la Chambre, Jean Pecquet, and Louis Gayant, The Courtiers' Anatomists explores the relationships between empiricism and theory, human and animal, as well as the origins of the natural history museum and the relationship between science and other cultural activities, including art, music, and literature.
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INDEX
Page numbers followed by the letter f indicate a figure.
Abul-Abbas (elephant), 202
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (petite Académie), 88–91, 95, 148, 230
Académie des sciences de Paris. See Paris Academy of Sciences
L’Académie des sciences et des beaux-arts (Leclerc), 88–89
Académie française, 32–33, 42–43, 61; charter members of, 43, 80–81; Dictionnaire of, 112–13; reforms of rhetoric of, 219
Academy of Sciences. See Paris Academy of Sciences
Accademia dei Lincei, 40, 52, 53f, 131, 133–34, 136
Accademia del Cimento, 136, 183
Aelian, 58, 145, 155
Aesop, 174–75
aesthetic taste, 3, 32, 188, 194–200, 223
air pump experiments, 110–12, 171
Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried, 247
Alceste (Lully), 198, 290n135
Aldrovandi, Ulisse, 59, 61–62, 267n40; cabinet of specimens of, 61, 150; encyclopedic tradition of, 130–31, 244
Alexander the Great, 145, 147, 151, 159, 177, 200, 290n11
Amphitheatrum zootomicum (Valentin), 241, 248
Anatomia del cavallo (Ruini), 62
L’anatomie de l’homme (Dionis), 209–10
Anatomie universelle du corps humain (Paré), 33
anatomists, 2–3, 8, 10–14. See also names of specific individuals, e.g., Perrault, Claude
anatomy: animal models in, 4–5, 19, 34, 36–37, 56–57, 64; comparative experimental practice in, 9–10, 14–15, 50–63; disentangling of structure and function in, 5; emergence of as a science, 56; English practice of, 101–2; as metaphor for natural philosophy, 50; as moral practice, 4–5, 34; patrons of, 31–33, 39–49; practitioners of,...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- A Note on Names, Dates, and Other Matters
- Abbreviations Used in the Notes
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- ONE / Anatomists and Courtiers
- TWO / The Anatomical Origins of the Paris Academy of Sciences
- THREE / The Animal Projects of the Paris Academy of Sciences
- FOUR / The Histoire des animaux
- FIVE / Perrault, Duverney, and Animal Mechanism
- SIX / The Courtiers’ Anatomist: Duverney at the Jardin du roi
- Conclusion
- Epilogue: The Afterlife of the Histoire des animaux
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index