The History of Information Graphics
Lesson 6
- Special edition - the body and diseases
Body
The Lebombo counting bone, Swaziland, 40000BC - Lunar phase? Menstrual cycle?
Ismail Ibn Hasan Jurjani (1044–1136)
Anatomical drawing - the human body
The Treasure of Khvarazm' Shah, 1120ca
National Library of Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran
Mansur Ibn Ilyas (14. century)
Arterial and nervous system
Tashrih-i badan-i insan, 1390ca
US National Library of Medicine, Bethesda
Anonymous
Book of Macharias on the Eye, ca. 1400
British Library, Sloane Collection
John Arderne (ca. 1307–1370)
Cross section of the human body
De arte phisicali et de cirurgia, ca. 1425
National Library of Sweden
Anonymous
The pregnant body
Writings of Astronomy, Astrology and Medicine, ca. 1485
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, cgm 597 fol. 259v
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)
The Human Fetus in the Womb
Leonardo's Sketchbooks, ca. 1511
The Royal Collection Trust
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528)
Proportions of the human body
Vier Bücher von menschlischer Proportion, 1525
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda
Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564)
Nerves
De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
William Harvey (1578–1657)
Blood circulation
De motu cordis, 1628
Warnock Library
Robert Hooper (1773–1835)
Diagram of the Human Eye, 1803
Wellcome Collection
Lemercier's anatomy
Planche 30
1844
Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923)
Hand mit Ringen - Anna Bertha Ludwig
1895 22nd December
Fritz Kahn (1888–1968)
Osteogenesis
Das Leben des Menschen, 1924
Crick and Watson's original DNA molecular model, 1953
King's College, Science Museum London
Crick's drawing of double helix
Nature, 1953
Diseases
Robert Hooke (1635–1703)
Flea
Micrographia, 1665
Collection of the Royal Society
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723)
Animalcules - bacteria
Letter to the Royal Society, 1683
Collection of the Royal Society
Valentine Seaman (1770–1817)
Yellow Fever Map, 1798
John Snow (1813–1858)
Cholera Map of London, 1854
Louis Pasteur (1822–1895)
Silkworm infected by bacteria, 1870
Linda Hall Library
Robert Koch (1843–1910)
Photomicrograph of bacillus anthraxis, 1877
Many faces of the SARS2-COVID19
