Poetic Rhetoric

November 06, 2018

Excerpt on the role of poetic rhetoric on 18th century anatomical research. From Elegant Anatomy, Marieke M. A. Hendriksen


Yet some controversies however could not be solved through making preparations and illustrations; in the case of smallpox inoculation, anatomists turned to poetic rhetoric.


Source: Elegant Anatomy, The Eighteenth-Century Leiden Anatomical Collections. Marieke M. A. Hendriksen (2015)

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