. Studies in the history and method of science. had reached him wasregarded as the limit ofhis duty. Of any attemptto extend the bounds ofknowledge, of any sys-tematic endeavour tocorrect or improve theanatomical views of hispredecessors, we find littleor no trace. Indeed, atPadua it was expresslylaid down in the statutesthat the exposition ofanatomy should followthe very words of Mon-dino.^ Early figures portray-ing the teaching of ana-tomy (Plate XXVII andFigs. 1-3, 5) usually showus a medical doctor sittingat a desk, well removedfrom the subject of dis-section, and reading from his text-boo
. Studies in the history and method of science. had reached him wasregarded as the limit ofhis duty. Of any attemptto extend the bounds ofknowledge, of any sys-tematic endeavour tocorrect or improve theanatomical views of hispredecessors, we find littleor no trace. Indeed, atPadua it was expresslylaid down in the statutesthat the exposition ofanatomy should followthe very words of Mon-dino.^ Early figures portray-ing the teaching of ana-tomy (Plate XXVII andFigs. 1-3, 5) usually showus a medical doctor sittingat a desk, well removedfrom the subject of dis-section, and reading from his text-book the description of thepart. Meanwhile an assistant, who is usually also a doctor,performs the actual work of dissection. The professor of 1 See E. Nicaise, La Orande Chirurgie de Guy de Chauliac, p. 30, Paris, 1890. 2 Ut Anatomic! explicationem ipsius Mundini sequantur, Francesco MariaColle, Storia scientifico-letteraria dello Studio di Padova, 4 vols., Padua, 1824-5,vol. iii, p. 108. 3 Martin von Mellerstadt, also called Pollich or Fig. 2. Title-page of Mellerstadts edition of theAnatomy of Mondino, Leipzig, 1493. The scene is laidin the open air.^ THE ANOTHOMIA OF HIERONYMO MANFREDI 83 Surgery, to whom the teaching of anatomy was entrusted,stands by with a pointer to indicate the different organs.
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