- Amé Bourdon
Amé Bourdon (1636 or 1638 -
December 21 ,1706 ) was a Frenchphysician andanatomist .Bourdon was born in
Cambrai ,France , in 1636 or 1638, the son of an engineer in the service of theSpanish crown . Having studiedscience extensively, he decided to attend the university inDouai at the age of 37. He practiced as aphysician inCambrai for much of his life, and died onDecember 21 ,1706 . Little else is known of him.In 1678, Amé Bourdon published his double folio anatomical plates, "Nouvelles tables anatomiques", most likely through the assistance of his patron
Jacques Theodore de Brias , archevêque de Cambrai. The work consists of 16 individual plates, several of which can be combined to form complete human figures. The plates, which were drawn by Bourdon himself, were created using the etching needle and theburin oncopperplate and are signed by theengraver Daniel Le Bossu (fl. 1671-1678). Some copies were hand colored and possiblyilluminated by thepublisher , as stated on the title page (plate [2] ) and the entry for the work in the catalog of theBibliothèque nationale de France .The anatomical images were labeled with letters and then later described by a small 12mo work, "Nouvelle description anatomique de toutes les parties du corps humain, & de leurs usages", which was published in
Cambrai in 1679.References
*Choulant, L. "History and bibliography of anatomic illustration." Trans. and annotated by Mortimer Frank. (New York: Hafner, 1962), p. 249.
*"Dictionnaire de biographie française." (Paris: Letouzey et ané, 1933- ), vol. VI, col. 1450.
External links
* [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/bourdon_home.html Amé Bourdon: "Nouvelles tables anatomiques." (Cambrai & Paris, 1678)] . Selected pages scanned from the original work. Historical Anatomies on the Web. US National Library of Medicine.
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