Forces of Form: The Vrolik Museum - Softcover

 
9789056297244: Forces of Form: The Vrolik Museum
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9056297244 ISBN 13: 9789056297244
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

The Museum Vrolikianum in Amsterdam was famous amongst scientists and medical men all over Europe in the nineteenth century. No visit to the city was complete without taking the opportunity to gaze in admiration at its five thousand specimens, ranging from curious stillbirths to human skeletons, healthy or diseased, and all kinds of exotic and not-so-exotic animals.Recent scientific publications have brought this exceptional collection back into the limelight. With its wonderful photographs by Hans van den Bogaard, this book is certain to extend that renewed interest to an even wider audience. Forces of Form provides a beautifully illustrated overview of Amsterdam's great tradition of anatomical collecting, homes in on the Vrolik Museum's long history and reveals the collection's huge scientific and cultural value. After all, a collection like this deserves to be seen.

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About the Author

Laurens de Rooy is a medical history researcher and curator of the Vrolik Museum, housed at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam. Hans van den Bogaard is a freelance photographer.

From the Back Cover

The Museum Vrolikianum in Amsterdam was famous amongst scientists and medical men all over Europe in the nineteenth century. No visit to the city was complete without taking the opportunity to gaze in admiration at its five thousand specimens, ranging from curious stillbirths to human skeletons ­ healthy or diseased ­ and all kinds of exotic and not-so-exotic animals.

Recent scientific publications have brought this exceptional collection back into the limelight. With its wonderful photographs by Hans van den Bogaard, this book is certain to extend that renewed interest to an even wider audience. Forces of Form provides a beautifully illustrated overview of Amsterdam’s great tradition of anatomical collecting, homes in on the Vrolik Museum’s long history and reveals the collection’s huge scientific and cultural value. After all, a collection like this deserves to be seen.

From the Inside Flap

The Museum Vrolikianum in Amsterdam was famous amongst scientists and medical men all over Europe in the nineteenth century. No visit to the city was complete without taking the opportunity to gaze in admiration at its five thousand specimens, ranging from curious stillbirths to human skeletons healthy or diseased and all kinds of exotic and not-so-exotic animals.Recent scientific publications have brought this exceptional collection back into the limelight. With its wonderful photographs by Hans van den Bogaard, this book is certain to extend that renewed interest to an even wider audience. Forces of Form provides a beautifully illustrated overview of Amsterdam s great tradition of anatomical collecting, homes in on the Vrolik Museum s long history and reveals the collection s huge scientific and cultural value. After all, a collection like this deserves to be seen.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9056297244
ISBN 13 
9789056297244
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
144
Editor
Rooy Laurens De, Bogaard Hans Van Den

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