[PDR] Vesalius and the Body Metaphor

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  VESALIUS AND THE BODY METAPHOR


*City streets, a winepress, pulleys, spinning tops, a ray fish, curdled 
milk: just a few of the many images used by 16th century anatomist 
Andreas Vesalius to explain the workings of the human body in his 
seminal work /De Humani Corporis Fabrica/. Marri Lynn explores.**
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