The Beauty of Anatomy - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Galen and Leonardo
Adam Rutherford begins his series by looking at the work of the 2nd century Roman anatomist Claudius Galen and the artist and part-time dissector Leonardo da Vinci.
Andreas Vesalius
Adam Rutherford tells the story of 16th-century anatomist Andreas Vesalius, who produced the first complete account of the human body and how to dissect it.
Rembrandt and Ruysch
Adam Rutherford travels to Holland to find out what it was that drew Rembrandt to anatomy and why dissecting bodies was thought a suitable subject for high art.
The Hunter Brothers
How the Hunter brothers transformed medicine and art in 18th-century Britain, believing that anatomy could only be learnt by performing dissections.
Gray's Anatomy
Adam Rutherford tells the story of how Henry Gray and Henry Carter put their bestseller Gray's Anatomy together based on dissections they personally performed.
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