mucholderthen:Persian Anatomical Illustrations, ca. 1390from Mansur’s Anatomy, the Tashrīḥi Manṣūr
mucholderthen: Persian Anatomical Illustrations, ca. 1390from Mansur’s Anatomy, the Tashrīḥi Manṣūri تشريح بدن انسان Tashrīḥ-i badan-i insān The Anatomy of the Human Body Composed by منصور ابن محمد ابن احمد ابن يوسف ابن الياس Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf Ibn Ilyās Manṣūr Ibn Ilyās was a late 14th century Persian physician from Shiraz, in Timurid Persia. Read a bio and description by Emilie Savage-Smith, University of Oxford … Copy kept in the U.S. National Library of Medicine, where you can see images of many more of Manṣūr Ibn Ilyās’ illustrations.________________________________ BOTTOM IMAGEThis diagram of a human skeleton is a view from behind, with the head hyperextended so that the face looks upward, with the palms of the hands facing towards the observer - a posture, some have noted, suggestive of the dissection table. -- source link
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