Analysis and Synthesis in Sixteenth-Century Anatomy - T. Baker (Independent)

The term “anatomy” in the early modern period was multifaceted, and at times it was explicitly understood via the Greek terms "analysis" and "synthesis" or their Latin equivalents, namely "resolutio" and "compositio".
This talk examines several late sixteenth-century anatomical works that adopted either the terms and or methods of analysis and synthesis, including the works of Costanzo Varolio (1543-1575), André du Laurens (1558-1609), Girolamo Fabrici d’Acquapendente (1533-1619), and Giulio Casserio (1552-1616).