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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history

Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.

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Yoga gets physical

Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.

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Getting under the skin

Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.

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Mapping the body

These intricate anatomical drawings show how Ayurveda practitioners have explored the human body and how it works.

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  • The Greek World with sites for History of Anatomy.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
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