ResearchGuides: Art and Science: Humans and their World

Explorations in Human Anatomy

Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany by Sachiko Kusukawa
Call Number: QH46.5 .K87 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Explore the connection between human anatomy and botany in early European medicine, and the stylistic decisions made by those attempting to convey this knowledge visually.
Leonardo Da Vinci: the Anatomy of Man by Martin Clayton and Ron Philo
Call Number: QM21 .C52 1992
Publication Date: 1992
Review the unique medical researches of Leonardo Da Vinci over a 25 year fascination with human anatomy.
Albinus on Anatomy by Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle
Call Number: QM21 .A48 1988
Publication Date: 1989
View 80 original copperplate engravings by Bernard Siegfried Albinus, known as the "greatest descriptive anatomist of the 18th century."
Lost Anatomies by John Gurche; David R. Begun (Contribution by); Carol Ward (Contribution by); Rick Potts (Contribution by); Trenton W. Holliday (Contribution by); Leakey Meave (Foreword by); Meave Leakey (Foreword by)
Call Number: 2nd Floor GN282 .G865 2019
ISBN: 9781419734489
Publication Date: 2019-03-12
Body Modern by Michael Sappol
Call Number: 2nd Floor Q143.K24 S27 2017
ISBN: 9781517900205
Publication Date: 2017-04-11

Images of Early Humans

Ancestral images : the iconography of human origins
Call Number: GN746 .M67 1998
ISBN: 9780801435492
View more than a hundred engravings, paintings, photographs and reconstructions of the human form over the centuries.
God - Or Gorilla: Images of Evolution in the Jazz Age by Constance Areson Clark
Call Number: GN281 .C53 2008
Observe various schemes to influence the evolution debate during the Jazz Age, from cartoons, paintings, sculptures, photographs and more.
The Book of Life by Edited by Stephen Jay Gould
Call Number: QH325 .B674 2001 quarto
Publication Date: 2001
Explore the social context of icons of ages past, from recreations of dinosaurs, early mammals and humans as revealed through the fossil record.

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Made by Mankind

The Arts of Industry in the Age of Enlightenment by Celina Fox
Call Number: N72.T4 F68 2009 quarto
Publication Date: 2010
Examine the tools used by mechanics and artisans to bring their work into the public domain, such as drawings, models, presentations at societies and publications.

Crossing the Menai Straits to the Isle of Anglesey by Edward Knight. Knight's American mechanical dictionary. New York, Hurd and Houghton, 1877 [c1876].

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Centuries of Civil Engineering

The Great Engineers: the Art of British Engineers 1837-1987 by Edited by Derek Walker
Call Number: TA57 .G74 1987
Publication Date: 1987
From bridges to buildings, view stunning diagrams, illustrations and photographs of engineering feats over the centuries.

Charting the World

To Master the Boundless Sea by Jason W. Smith
Call Number: 2nd Floor E182 .S64 2018
ISBN: 9781469640440
Publication Date: 2018-06-04
Visions of the World: a History of Maps by Jeremy Black
Call Number: GA201 .B522 2003 quarto
Publication Date: 2003
View this history of world cartography, from before the age of printing to today's satellite images.
The Map Book by Edited by Peter Barber
Call Number: GA201 .M36 2005
Publication Date: 2005
Admire close to 175 beautifully illustrated maps across four millennia.
The Natures of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of the Natural World by Denis Wood and John Fels
Call Number: GA151 .W56 2008 quarto
Change your view of maps by learning to recognize the agendas and intentions of the creators through the placement of visual elements.
To the Ends of the Earth: 100 Maps that Changed the World by Jeremy Harwood and Sarah Bendall
Call Number: GA201 .H376 2006 quarto
View 100 maps, from subways and city plans to new territories, that shaped history.