The Courtiers' Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV's Paris

by Anita Guerrini

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022624766X
• ISBN13: 9780226247663
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 8.8"