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The print is organized into a technical grid displaying various views of laryngeal structures. Figure I provides a large, detailed perspective of the larynx connected to the trachea, while figures II through XI show isolated cartilages and bones from different angles, including cross-sections and profile views. The objects are rendered in black ink with fine hatching to define shadow and depth, set against a plain page background with extensive Latin annotations surrounding the central figures.
This image is a plate from an early 17th-century anatomical treatise, reflecting the period's rigorous focus on the mechanical and structural understanding of the human body as practiced in early modern natural philosophy.
De Partibus Asperae Arteriae Contiguis. 145 TABULA TERTIA IN XI. FIGURAS DIVISA IN QUA LARINX Cartilaginea integra cum osse Hyoide simulatque cartilagines particulares tres exprimuntur, quae concurrunt ad laringis integrae compositionem; porro etiam & Epiglotis atque Bronchii cartilago in ciusdem II. & II. fig. explicantur. LIB. III. TAB. XXXII. [Figures I-XI labeled with letters] [Index of labels provided at the bottom]
Translation
On the parts adjacent to the trachea. 145. Third plate divided into 11 figures in which the complete cartilaginous larynx with the hyoid bone, as well as the three particular cartilages which concur in the composition of the whole larynx, are expressed; furthermore the epiglottis and the cartilage of the bronchi are explained in the same 2nd and 12th figures.
Giulio Casserio
This plate is characteristic of the detailed anatomical illustrations found in Casserio's 'Tabulae Anatomicae' (1627) or related early modern medical compendia of the era.
Object
engraving
laid paper
Baroque
German
anatomical
Digital Source
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
476 × 820 px
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