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Diploma of Doctor of Medicine (University of Padua)
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This diploma of Doctor of Medicine was awarded to Jacob Mahler by the University of Padua, Italy. Mahler, born in Bingen-on-Rhine, Germany, studied medicine and philosophy, and in 1695 was awarded a…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Padua, Venice (Padua, Italy)

Date:

1695

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Medicine, Profession, Education, Scholarship

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Science & Philosophy, Medicine
Facing-page manuscript with Latin text on right-hand page surrounded by floral border and man in circular frame on top and bottom of page, and portrait of man on left-hand side surrounded by floral border and two cherubs with man in frames on top and bottom of page.
Disputatio medica inauguralis, de pleuritide (Inaugural Medical Discourse: On Pleuritide)
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This is the title page of Disputatio medica inauguralis, de pleuritide (Inaugural Medical Discourse: On Pleuritide), David Pina’s doctoral dissertation at the University of Leiden. Pina was a…

Contributor:

David Pina

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1678

Subjects:

Medicine, Health, Scholarship, Education, Profession

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Medicine, Visual & Material Culture
Manuscript page with Latin text and small illustration of man standing beneath a tree.
Technical Diagram from Joseph Delmedigo’s Elim
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This is a technical diagram from Joseph Delmedigo’s Sefer Elim (Book of Elim), a scientific and philosophical work published by Menasseh Ben Israel.

Contributor:

Menasseh Ben Israel, Joseph Solomon Delmedigo

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1629

Subjects:

Print, Technology, Math, Scholarship, Profession

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Science & Philosophy
Printed page with Hebrew text on right side and illustration of tall tower with wheels inside it on left side.
Harvey Demonstrating the Circulation of the Blood to Charles I
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This painting depicts the seventeenth-century physician William Harvey demonstrating his discovery of blood circulation, a seminal moment in the history of modern medicine. Harvey, personal physician…

Contributor:

Benjamin-Eugène Fichel

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1850

Subjects:

Medicine, Profession, Scholarship, Modernity, Body image

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Painting of well-dressed man in hat with plume and sword putting his hand on the chest of a nude man tied down prone on a table with face upturned and mouth open, as several well-dressed men look on from the far side of the table.