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Leonardo da Vinci's Embryological Annotations
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Aug 19, 2008
Among his myriad scientific and artistic contributions, Leonardo da Vinci's work in embryology was groundbreaking. He observed and diagramed the…
LiteratureLeonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519Human DevelopmentPublicationsFetus
Leonardo da Vinci's Embryological Annotations
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Aug 19, 2008
Among his myriad scientific and artistic contributions, Leonardo da Vinci's work in embryology was groundbreaking. He observed and diagramed the…
LiteratureLeonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519Human DevelopmentPublicationsFetus
Leonardo da Vinci's Embryological Drawings of the Fetus
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Aug 19, 2008
Leonardo da Vinci's embryological drawings of the fetus in the womb and his accompanying observational annotations are found in the third volume of…
LiteratureHuman DevelopmentFetus
Images of Embryos in Life Magazine in the 1950s
By: Olivia Conley
| Published: Jun 30, 2010
Embryonic images displayed in Life magazine during the mid-twentieth century serve as a representation of technological advances and the growing…
PublicationsReproductionChicksHuman DevelopmentFetus
Girolamo Fabrici (1537-1619)
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Aug 26, 2008
Girolamo Fabrici, known as Hieronymus Fabricius in Latin, was given the surname Aquapendente from the city where he was born, near Orvieto, Italy.…
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De Formato Foetu (c. 1600), by Girolamo Fabrici
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Aug 27, 2008
The embryological treatise De formato foetu (The Formed Fetus) was written by anatomist and embryologist Girolamo Fabrici. There is no conclusive…
LiteratureFabricius, ab Aquapendente, approximately 1533-1619FetusPublicationsAnatomy
Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777)
By: Cera R. Lawrence
| Published: Sep 22, 2008
Victor Albrecht von Haller was an 18th century scientist who did extensive work in the life sciences, including anatomy and physiology, botany, and…
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"Drama of Life Before Birth" (1965), by Life Magazine and Lennart Nilsson
By: Olivia Conley
| Published: Jun 30, 2010
Life Magazine's 1965 cover story "Drama of Life Before Birth" featured photographs of embryos and fetuses taken by Swedish photojournalist Lennart…
LiteratureFetusPublicationsReproductionHuman Development
Johann Friedrich Meckel, the Younger (1781-1833)
By: Lindsey O'Connell
| Published: Oct 11, 2013
Johann Friedrich Meckel studied abnormal animal and human anatomy in nineteenth century Germany in an attempt to explain embryological development.…
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Essay: Review of Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos
By: Lijing Jiang, Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 22, 2012
To Lynn M. Morgan, the Mary E. Woolley Professor of Anthropology at Mt. Holyoke College, nothing says life more than a dead embryo. In her easily…
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