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Excerpt from History and Bibliography of Anatomic Illustration: In Its Relation to Anatomic Science and the Graphic Arts The purpose of this book is a presentation of the history and the bibliography of representations of human anatomy by graphic means. Due consideration has been given both to anatomic illustration and to representations belonging to the graphic or plastic arts. For a satisfactory attainment of his purpose, the author will first present a brief historical introduction (pp. 22 to 41), which will be followed by explanatory sections (pp. 42 to 357), in order to avoid crowding the introduction with confusing details. The historic character of the work necessarily set a certain time-limit to both lines of consideration, to the scientific as well as to the artistic. The earlier period of anatomic illustrations ends with Soemmerring and Mascagni. With increasing needs, a new era sets in, differing from the preceding one in its conception of the graphic arts and in the use of new tools and means of reproduction. The development of histologic and microscopic anatomy, the employment of lithography, steel engraving, the daguerreotype, the modern woodcut, and other graphic means, all brought about manifold changes in the methods of anatomic representation. This epoch has no place within the domain of historic research, but has to do rather with a critical appreciation of the literary demands and resources of the present time and of modern science. For this reason the treatment of the subject concludes with the two anatomists above mentioned, adding only the two most important collective works of a later time, those of Loder and Caldani, which were necessarily characteristic of the former period, since they presented only material belonging to it. As regards illustration for the needs of the graphic and plastic arts, that is, in behalf of artistic anatomy, some of their different historic epochs occur earlier and are duly pointed out. At the time of the above-mentioned conclusion of an epoch in scientific anatomy there is no noticeable falling off in illustrations in aid of artistic anatomy. It became necessary, therefore, to enumerate all anatomic illustrations for the use of artists up to the present time, which has been done. Besides this limitation of the periods of time within which this work was to be confined, a careful selection of appropriate material was no less necessary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.