Animals and Humans in Louis XIV's Paris
by
Anita Guerrini
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
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...