The human body has fascinated people for as long as we have had recorded history, but never more so than over the last 400 years.  Since the Renaissance, artists, performers, and natural philosophers (who would later just be called 'scientists') drew their inspiration from the mysterious inner workings of the body. There's some great recent writing about the history and philosophy of anatomy, including studies of anatomy in Britain from 1700-1900 (MacDonald, 2014), critical analyses of anatomy lectures (Frieson and Roth, 2014), and Andreas Vesalius's public anatomy lessons (Shotwell, 2015).  But there are also two new resources on the web that I came across recently that are quite amazing … [Read more...] about Anatomy – old and new