Anatomy was increasingly seen as essential for surgeons, not least as the wars that ravaged the Continent pushed developments in military surgery. Anatomy was thus an applied topic for surgeons, but was also an academic subject in its own right. As various forms of illustration technologies developed, anatomical works became much more heavily illustrated.
| Last Name | First Name | Title Sort descending | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willis | Thomas | Two discourses concerning the soul of brutes, which is that of the vital and sensitive… | 1683 |
| Helmont | Jean Baptiste van | Van Helmont’s works: containing his most excellent philosophy, physick, chirurgery, anatomy. Wherein the philosophy of… | 1664 |