De menselijke canon. Het vraagstuk van de ideale mens in de Nederlandse medische wetenschap

The human benchmark. The issue of the ideal human being in Dutch medical science In ancient times the sculptor Polycletus constructed a statue representing the most harmonious i.e. beautiful proportions of man, which he named Canon. As the Greco-Roman physician Galen favoured Polycletus, during subsequent centuries the canon of beauty became linked with balance and health. This article follows the fate of Polycletus’ idealized canon in the works of the Dutch-Flemish physicians Andreas Vesalius, Bernhard Albinus, Petrus Camper, Gerard Sandifort and Hubertus Fock. From the middle of the sixteent... Mehr ...