Windows on the Womb and Guiding Trains of Light: Figuring the Real in Plate XXVI of William Hunter's Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus
(2024)
Journal Article
Bruce, S. (2024). Windows on the Womb and Guiding Trains of Light: Figuring the Real in Plate XXVI of William Hunter's Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12923
Eschewing the symbolic in favour of commitment to the unmediated replication of exactly that which is actually observed, Hunter’s attitude to the images in his Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus embraces a juridical ideal of scientific representation... Read More about Windows on the Womb and Guiding Trains of Light: Figuring the Real in Plate XXVI of William Hunter's Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus.