Interactive visualisation of Swammerdam’s microscopic drawings

DOI

In this visualization, the famous drawings on insect anatomy by Jan Swammerdam are presented in an accessible manner, allowing for easy comparison. Notwithstanding the individual plates' 'film'-like representation of a creature's development, in the light of 17th-century natural history the author's principal aim was to highlight the analogous development, in corresponding stages, of both the higher and the lower animal species. The drawings testify to the opening up of a previously hidden realm of animal development and complexity, and were instrumental in criticizing the notion of 'sponateous generation' of insects.

The visualisations have been created within the project Dynamic Drawings in Enhanced Publications, a collaboration between Brill, HuygensING, DANS and WildCard.

This dataset is an archival copy of the visualisation published on the Dynamic Drawings project website: http://demo-brill.dans.knaw.nl/

[Note: A screencast will be added to this visualization shortly]

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-2an-4yaa
Metadata Access https://ssh.datastations.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.17026/dans-2an-4yaa
Provenance
Creator D. Nagel; T. Cocquyt
Publisher DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities
Contributor ML Hoogerwerf; Brill
Publication Year 2013
Rights CC0 1.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
OpenAccess true
Contact ML Hoogerwerf (DANS)
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Version 1.1
Discipline History; Humanities