
Exploring the Global Past: Parts and Wholes in History
Delve into the evolution of understanding parts and wholes in history through images and insights from renowned works such as Robert Fludd's Microcosm Historia. Explore the intricate relationship between body and machine, and ponder the implications of the genomic turn on holistic views versus determinism.
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The Global Past of Parts and Wholes Roberta Bivins Centre for the History of Medicine University of Warwick
Robert Fludd Microcosm Historia, 1619 Courtesy Wellcome Library, London Li Jiong, Canon of Eighty-One Problems c.1436. Courtesy Wellcome Library London
Building the Body-Machine Toviyah Kats, Ma a seh Toviyah ( Work of Tobias, Venice, 1708). Courtesy National Library of Medicine, USA Fritz Kahn, Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace, Stuttgart, 1926) Courtesy National Library of Medicine, USA