Andreas Vesalius:
De Corporis Humani Fabrica Libri Septem (1543)
You can view other anatomical archives from the U.S. National Library of Medicine:
Historical Anatomies on the Web

Dream Anatomy
"Drawn mainly from the collections of the National Library of Medicine, Dream Anatomy shows off the anatomical imagination in some of its most astonishing incarnations, from 1500 to the present."



Images from Georg Bartisch's
Ophthalmodouleia (1583)


Imagery from the History of Medicine
A scattershot of images from the 15th to the 19th century.


An "anatomy" search at the British Library Images Online


The Clendening Library: The Human Body
A collection of rare images from primarily the 16th-19th Centuries.


Hybrid Medical Animation
Digital visualizations to assist healthcare and biotech professionals.


Décolleté: A Severed Head Gallery
>From antiquity til the last age of the guillotine.


Body Worlds
An exhibition of the work of Gunther von Hagens, inventor of plastination.
More images of Von Hagens and his work on the Marc Steinmetz site.


La Specola Museum
An exhibition of 18th century wax anatomical sculptures.