Of the Eye and of the Hand: Performance in Early Modern Anatomy
Résumé
The history of the theater belongs to the history of knowledge, and anatomy has played an important role in the history of the stage. In order to demonstrate the correlation of these two arguments, it is necessary to show that anatomy can and should be considered as a knowledge that comes into existence through performance. If the notion of performance is useful and generally illuminating for the history of science, if the bodies of anatomy’s practitioners, their gestures, their actions, are the fundamental ingredients in the production of scientific knowledge, then the case of anatomy, beginning in the Middle Ages, displays these elements most explicitly.
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