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La dissection des parties du corps humain...

Paris, 1546. Woodcut. National Library of Medicine.

Charles Estienne
(1504-ca. 1564)
[author]

Étienne de la Rivière
(d. 1569)
[anatomist]

A skeleton with a thin covering of tendons poses before an apocalyptic sky.

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