With its novel vignettes and its use of a camera obscura in the production of the plates, William Cheselden’s lavishly illustrated Osteographia or the Anatomy of the Bones, is recognized as a landmark in the history of anatomical illustration.
Read more about the Osteographia in Monique Kornell’s article for The Public Domain Review.
(All images via the National Library of Medicine. See their website for more images and scans of the original pages).
Read more about the Osteographia in Monique Kornell’s article for The Public Domain Review.
(All images via the National Library of Medicine. See their website for more images and scans of the original pages).
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