Toviyah Kats (ca. 1652-1729) 'Ma’a’seh Toviyah' Venice, 1708. Woodcut from a Hebrew encyclopedia pairs the interior of a human interior with the interior of a house, a visual metaphor: the organs, like rooms in a house, have different functions. Kats, one

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