Adam Rutherford tells the story of how Henry Gray and Henry Carter put their bestseller Gray's Anatomy together based on dissections they personally performed.
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Gray's Anatomy
Adam Rutherford tells the story of how Henry Gray and Henry Carter put their bestseller Gray's Anatomy together based on dissections they personally performed.
03-06-2021
BBC 4
The Hunter Brothers
How the Hunter brothers transformed medicine and art in 18th-century Britain, believing that anatomy could only be learnt by performing dissections.
01-06-2021
BBC 4
Rembrandt And Ruysch
Adam Rutherford travels to Holland to find out what it was that drew Rembrandt to anatomy and why dissecting bodies was thought a suitable subject for high art.
27-05-2021
BBC 4
Andreas Vesalius
Adam Rutherford tells the story of 16th-century anatomist Andreas Vesalius, who produced the first complete account of the human body and how to dissect it.
25-05-2021
BBC 4
Galen And Leonardo
Adam Rutherford begins his series by looking at the work of the 2nd century Roman anatomist Claudius Galen and the artist and part-time dissector Leonardo da Vinci.
18-05-2021
BBC 4
Rembrandt And Ruysch
Adam Rutherford travels to Holland to find out what it was that drew Rembrandt to anatomy and why dissecting bodies was thought a suitable subject for high art.
27-05-2021
BBC 4
Galen And Leonardo
Adam Rutherford begins his series by looking at the work of the 2nd century Roman anatomist Claudius Galen and the artist and part-time dissector Leonardo da Vinci.
18-05-2021
BBC 4
Andreas Vesalius
Adam Rutherford tells the story of 16th-century anatomist Andreas Vesalius, who produced the first complete account of the human body and how to dissect it.
25-05-2021
BBC 4
The Hunter Brothers
How the Hunter brothers transformed medicine and art in 18th-century Britain, believing that anatomy could only be learnt by performing dissections.
01-06-2021
BBC 4
Gray's Anatomy
Adam Rutherford tells the story of how Henry Gray and Henry Carter put their bestseller Gray's Anatomy together based on dissections they personally performed.
03-06-2021
BBC 4