During the Renaissance a series of significant shifts in our understanding of the human body took place. Increasing knowledge ...

They were only challenged and improved upon when a new generation of Renaissance doctors were allowed to dissect human bodies. Andreas Vesalius, 1514 - 1564, was the author of influential anatomy ...

Angus Gowland investigates the theory of melancholy and its many applications in the Renaissance by means of a wide-ranging contextual analysis of Robert Burton's encyclopaedic Anatomy of Melancholy ...

For the first time, researchers at Phoenix's Barrow Neurological Institute have collected and displayed together the ...

These signs fit eerily well with breast carcinoma, even when considering the Renaissance era's limited medical understanding.