NATS 1730 Lecture Notes - The Symbolic, Jousting, High Middle Ages
9 May 2013
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Enormous distance between people who work with their hands vs. people who work from texts. To get to the thing itself and to capture it in its original source. 1543 de humani corporus fabrica vesalius. In the periods from galen to the renaissance, medicine becomes more instutionalized. 14th -16th century medicine becomes implicated in university education. Begins in high middle ages in europe. Distance between of academic med vs. practice of med as a craft. Ad fontes = to the source (watch word for the renaissance) Assumption that the texts were lost in translation. Vesalius goes to the source (the human body) for knowledge. His contribution: all corrections vesalius makes to the galenic writing. Blood comes from chyle (concocted by food) Radical transformation in how things are represented. Manner of reproduction becomes radically different because of print. Jan calkar artist who was hired by vesalius for the book.
