The Cultural Identity of Seventeenth Century Woman
Subtitle: A Reader
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 21, 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780415104814
First sentence: The practice and findings of experimental anatomy constituted the most significant sixteenth-century advances in medicine, but these discoveries made little impact upon professional thinking until very late in the seventeenth century, and they hardly affected the popular idea of the body until the eighteenth (Maclean (1980), pp. 28-9).