title: Christopher Wren, Thomas Willis and the depiction of the brain and nerves.
abstract: This paper is about Christopher Wren's engravings for Thomas Willis' The Anatomy of the Brain and Nerves of 1664. It is a study in the intersection of medicine and art in 17th century Britain. Willis, an eminent English physician and anatomist, was a major figure in the development of modern neurology, and The Anatomy of the Brain and Nerves was his most famous and influential book. Wren was Willis' assistant and medical artist. I discuss the visual strategies employed by Wren to present their research and frame it as genuine knowledge.
authors.affiliation: Humanities Department, Dawson College, 3040 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3Z 1A4, Canada. aneher@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
authors.forename: Allister
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Neher
mesh_terms: D001877:Books / Q000266:history*; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D049670:History, 17th Century; D006801:Humans; D008488:Medical Illustration / Q000266:history*