Further Study

Bibliography & Suggested Readings

Below are the sources used in the making of this visual exhibition. Research topics ranged from early printing in the United States, the use of diagrams and illustrations in the natural sciences, as well as ancient Greek anatomy. For those interested in the publication history of Anatomical Tables of the Human Body, there are also links to the full-length editions. Further exploration of this book could include research on the role of textbooks in 18th century Europe, the influence of dissection on printing, or the visual shifts in printed anatomical depictions. 

Primary Sources

Cheselden, William. The Anatomy of the Human Body. Early American Imprints, Series I (Evans). http://infoweb.newsbank.com/.

Cheselden, William. The Anatomy of the Human Body. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. http://galeauth.galegroup.com/.

Cheselden, William, William Manning, James Loring, and David West. Anatomical Tables of the Human Body. Boston: Printed by Manning and Loring for David West, 1796.

Secondary Sources

Carlino, Andrea. “Knowe Thyself: Anatomical Figures in Early Modern Europe.” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, no. 27 (1995): 52–69.

 “Death of Dr. Henry Tuck.; Was for Years First Vice President of the New York Life.” Accessed April 17, 2017. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B0CE6D91F3AE733A25750C0A96F9C946597D6CF.

Green, James N. “The Rise of Book Publishing.” In A History of the Book in America, 75–127. Volume 2: An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840. University of North Carolina Press, 2010. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807895689_gross.8.

Kusukawa, Sachiko. Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.

O’Bryan, C. Jill, ed. “Looking inside the Human Body.” In Carnal Art, NED-New edition., 39–80. Orlan’s Refacing. University of Minnesota Press, 2005. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttsr3c.6.

Pettegree, Andrew. The Book in the Renaissance. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 2010.

Sauer, Anne, Jessica Branco, John Bennett, and Zachary Crowley. “Wessell Library, 1964-1997.” Tufts Digital Library, 2000. http://dl.tufts.edu/catalog/tei/tufts:UA069.005.DO.00001/chapter/W00003. 

Siraisi, Nancy G., ed. “The Uses of Anatomy.” In The Clock and the Mirror, 93–118. Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance Medicine. Princeton University Press, 1997. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt17t75k6.10.

Smith, Pamela H. “Art, Science, and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe.” Isis 97, no. 1 (2006): 83–100. doi:10.1086/501102.