The muscles of the body seen from the back and the diaphragm (at the lower right). Engraving, 1686.

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[1686]
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32161i
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The muscles of the body seen from the back and the diaphragm (at the lower right). Engraving, 1686. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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As a method of representation, selected muscles have been raised or suspended from their attachments. For example, the right trapezius muscle ("D") and the right gluteus major ("A") are raised. The extensor carpi radialis ("V") is suspended from the arm as is the gastrocnemius ("N N") at the lower left leg, allowing one to compare this muscle in situ at the back of the lower right leg

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[Amsterdam] : [J. ten Hoorn], [1686]

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1 print : engraving ; image 14.5 x 8.3 cm

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Bears plate number: Tab. XLVI; page number

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Wellcome Collection 32161i

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The forty-sixth of fifty-one plates first published in Steven Blankaart's De nieuw hervormde anatomie ofte ontleding des menschen lichaams, Amsterdam 1686, with a Latin edition the following year. The plates are made up of uncredited reduced copies of previously published illustrations, several to a page. In the notes to this plate in James Drake's Anthropologia nova (London 1707, 2 vols), where the Blankaart plates were published in an appendix to the first volume, the figures are described as after those published by Bartholin

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