Comment on Histories Mysteries
Technus@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
This is undeniably hilarious, but if you’ve ever seen actual dissection photos or videos of surgery, you kinda recognize that good anatomical drawings required a lot of mental effort to create.
Imagine making a completely accurate diagram of everything in a car’s engine bay, either while the engine is running and it’s doing 70mph down the highway, or after it’s had a head-on collision at the same speed.
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And remember that every second you’re under the hood looking at it, youre afraid of getting caught and sentenced for fiddling with cadavers without permission.
I had to look up the history and while it was illegal at points in history, anatomy theaters became popular in the 16th century.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_anatomy
The period I was thinking about was some British history, 17th-19th century, the bodysnatching thing.