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Between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, the members of medical, lay, religious, university and artistic communities, often with various degrees of collaboration, observed the interior and exterior of human and animal bodies, utilizing a wide variety of practices. Between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries when anatomy succeeded in establishing itself as a vital realm of medical training, the field maintained close ties to disparate philosophical traditions, from a foundation in Aristotelian inquiries into first principles in the earlier period, to increasing attention in the fifteenth and sixteenth to questions of form and function inspired by Galen. By the mid-to-late sixteenth century anatomists increasingly associated their field with natural philosophy and the study of natural phenomena and natural principles.
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Gage, F.M. (2018). Anatomy, Renaissance. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_1087-1
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