References and Resources

The following texts were referenced throughout the process of researching and writing this exhibition and its corresponding research paper.

Books

Atkinson, James. Medical Bibliography, A. and B. London, John Churchill, 1834.

Bellingradt, Danielle. “Paper Networks and the Book Industry. The Business Activities of an Eighteenth-century Paper Dealer in Amsterdam.” in Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe, Beyond Production, Circulation and Consumption. Switzerland, Springer International Publishing, 2017. Pp 67-85.

Choulant, Ludwig. History of Bibliography of Anatomic Illustration In its Relation to Anatomic Science and the Graphic Arts. Trans. Mortimer Frank. Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 1920.

Cole, F.J. “Academies and Societies: The Anatomy Lesson,” In a History of Comparative Anatomy from Artistotle to the Eighteenth Century. London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1944. Pp 312- 441.

 de Vries, Lyckle. “‘Grondlegginge’ and ‘Schilderboek’.” In Gerard de Lairesse, An Artist between Stage and Studio. Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 1998. Pp 71-133.

Dobson, Jessie, Walker, R. Milnes. “The Company of Barber-Surgeons 1540-1745.” In Barbers and Barber-Surgeons of London: A History of the Barber’s and Barber-Surgeons’ Companies. Oxford, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1979. 36-56.

Dumaitre, Paul. La curieuse destinee des planches anatomiques de Gerard de Lairesse. Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1982. Johns, Adrian. “Piracy and Usurpation: Natural Philosophy in Restoration.” In The Nature of the Book, Print and Knowledge in the Making. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Johns, Adrian. “Piracy and Usurpation: Natural Philosophy in Restoration.” In The Nature of the Book, Print and Knowledge in the Making. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp 444-531.

Kneoff, Rina. “Moral Lessons of Perfection: A Comparison of Mennonite and Calvinist Motives in the Anatomical Atlases of Bidloo and Albinus.” In Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe. England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2007. Pp 121-143.

Margoscy, Daniel. “A Museum of Wonders or a Cemetery of Corpses? The Commercial Exchange of Anatomical Collections in Early Modern Netherlands.” in Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries. Berlin, LIT Verlag, 2011. Pp 185-217.

Roberts, K. B., and Tomlinson, J. D. W. “Govard Bidloo.” In The Fabric of the Body: European Traditions of Anatomical Illustration. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Pp 309-319.

K.B. Roberts, J.D.W. Tomlinson, “William Cowper,” in The Fabric of the Body: European Traditions of Anatomical Illustration. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Pp 412- 419.

Salman, Salman. “The Battle of Medical Books: Publishing Strategies and the Medical Market in the Dutch Republic (1650-1750).” in Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe: Beyond Production, Circulation and Consumption. Switzerland, Springer International Publishing, 2017. Pp 169-191.

Schierbeek, A. Jan Swammerdam 1637-1680. His Life and Works. Amsterdam, Taylor & Francis, 1967.

Schoneveld, Cornelis W. Intertraffic of the Mind: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Dutch Translation with a Checklist of Books Translated from English into Dutch, 1600-1700. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 1993.

Ed. Hellinga, L, et al. The Bookshop of the World. The Role of the Low Countries in the Book-Trade 1473-1941. ‘t Goy-Houten, Hes en De Graaf, 2001.

Yeo, Matthew. “Natural Philosophy and ‘Useful’ Texts: The History of the Book and the History of Science.” In The Acquisition of Books by Chetham’s Library, 1655-1700. Boston, Leiden: Brill, 2011. 185-217.

Journals

Beekman, Fenwick. “Bidloo and Cowper, Anatomists.” Annals of Medical History (1935): 113-129.

Hansen, Julie. “Resurrecting Death: Anatomical Art in the Cabinet of Dr. Frederik Ruysch.” The Art Bulletin, vol. 78, no. 4(1996): 663-679.

Kuretsky, Susan Donahue. “Lairesse Meets Bidloo, or the Case of the Absent Anatomist.” Midwestern Arcadia: Essays in Honor of Alison Kettering (2015): 28-38.

Sanders, Mark A. “William Cowper and his Decorated Copperplate Initials.” The Anatomical Record, vol. 282 (2005): 5-12.

Primary Sources

Bidloo, Govard. Anatomia Humani Corporis. Amsterdam, for the widow of Joannes van Someren, the heirs of Joannes van Dyk, Henry Boom and widow of Theodore Boom, 1685.

Bidloo, Govard. “Godefridi Bidloo, Vindiciae Quarundam Delineationum Anatomicarum, Contra Ineptas Animadversiones Fred. Ruyschii, Praelect. Anat. Chirurg. & Botan..” in Godefridi Bidloo Opera Omnia Anatomico Chirurgica. Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, 1715. 3-56

Bidloo, Govard. “Gulielmus Cowper, Criminis Literarii Citatus, Coram Tribunali Nobiliss: Ampliss: Societatis Britanno-Regiae per Godefridum Bidloo.” in Godefridi Bidloo Opera Omnia Anatomico Chirurgica. Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, 1715.

Cowper, William. Eucharista in qua dotes plurimae et singulares Godefridi Bidloo M. D. at in illustrissima Leydarum Academia anatomiae professoris celberrimi, peritia anatomica, probitas, ingenium, elegantiae latinitatis, lepores, candor, humanitas, ingenuitas, solertia, verecundia, humilitas, urbanitas, &c., celebrantur et ejusdem citatiuni humillime respondeteur. London, 1701.

Cowper, William. Mytotomia Reformata, or A New Administration Of All The Muscles Of Humane Bodies: Wherein The true Uses of the Muscles are Explained, the Errors of former Anatomists concerning them Confuted, and several Muscles not hitherto taken notice of Described; To which are subjoin'd, A Graphical Description of the Bones, And other Anatomical Observations. London, Smith & Walford, 1694.

Cowper, William. the Anatomy of Humane Bodies, with figures drawn after the life by some of the best masters in Europe, and curiously engraven in one hundred and fourteen copper plates, illustrated with large explications, containing many new anatomical discoveries, and chirurgical observations, to which is added an introduction explaining the animal oeconomy, with a copious index. Oxford, Printed at the Theatre, for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, 1698.

Websites

“Anatomia Humani Corporis by Govard Bidloo, First Edition.” AbeBooks. 2018. https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/anatomia-humani-corporis/author/govard-bidloo/first-edition/

“Bidloo, Govard (1649-1713). Anatomia humani corporis, centum & quinqui tabulis, per artificiosiss. G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineates. Amsterdam: for the widow of Joannes van Someren, the heirs of Joannes van Dyk, Henry Boom and widow of Theodor Boom, 1685.” Christie’s. October, 2007. https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/bidloo-govard-1649-1713-anatomia-humani-corporis-centum-4959910-details.aspx

Kneoff, Rina. “Dutch Anatomy and Clinical Medicine in 17th-Century Europe.” European History Online. Leibniz Institute of European History. 2012. http://ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/models-and-stereotypes/the-dutch-century/rina-knoeff-dutch-anatomy-and-clinical-medicine-in-17th-century-europe

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