Medical Astrology: Science, Art, and Influence in early-modern Europe

Item

Planetary Man Skeleton

Title

Planetary Man Skeleton

Creator

Richard Saunders (1613-1675)

Contributor

Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library

Date

1671

Description

Black-and-white skeleton framed by the images of the sun and moon, and by scrolls with planet names

Format

image

Rights

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Source

Physiognomie, and chiromancie, metoposcopie : the symmetrical proportions and signal moles of the body, fully and accurately explained : with their natural-predictive significations both to men and women ... : with the subject of dreams made plain: whereunto is added the art of memory (London: H. Brugis, 1671), 29 detail. Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.