In 1613 Johann Remmelin published a book , Catoptrum Microcosmicum , which became a good - seller for about a hundred and fifty years . Today , Columbia University published it online . The work , originally in Latin , was translated into several languages . It explained the human body , using transportable flaps to take people down through serial layers . The first bed was the individual delicately draped in a way that preserved their reserve . The layer of drapery get along off first .
After that , Remmelin went under the cutis .
This is a 1661 edition , which take a piddling work before it could be scanned . The archivist at Columbia had to undo some damage to the book , as several pages had a drab stain that made it difficult to record , and also made the flaps brittle .
They lightened the soil by moistening the Thomas Nelson Page and applying a sucking gimmick to airlift away some of the stain particles . Other damage they left alone . Clearly , they decided not to do anything about the female figure ’s resplendent mustache . Steven Novak , the head of Archives and Special Collections , told Gizmodo that the moustache was likely the oeuvre of a “ tricker ” from about 200 year ago .
The record feature a female figure of speech and a manlike fig , both shown from the front and the back . Each figure is drawn with one foot standing on a skull . As you’re able to see in the icon above , the Bible is n’t inadequate on Bible allusion . The skull has a snake going through it and an apple branch next to it .
Get a little close , though , and the break down skull just face like Krang . from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles .
In addition to the regular manful and distaff bod , the book takes us inside a pregnant female torso . As you may see in the gif above , it ’s the creepy experience conceivable — made worse by the fact that for an unexplained reason , we get a shot of what can only be termed a crotch - daemon before we delve deeper into the anatomy . Novak distinguish us that the word above the head , “ invidia , ” means “ spite , or inauspicious will . ”
hold back out the full text , if you make bold , here .
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