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metaconscious: Gunther von Hagens, acid-corrosion cast of the arteries of the adult human hand and forearm.

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into-velvet: Francesco Minniti, Armonia astro-medico-anotomica, 1690-close up. Animated Anatomies explores the visually stunning and technically complex genre of printed texts and illustrations known as anatomical flap books. These publications invite the viewer to participate in virtual autopsies, through the process of unfolding their movable leaves, simulating the act of human dissection. This exhibit traces the flap book genre beginning with early examples from the sixteenth century, to the colorful “golden age” of complex flaps of the nineteenth century, and finally to the common children’s pop-up anatomy books of today. Animated Anatomies is an exhibit on display in the Perkins Gallery, Perkins Library,  Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, from April 6-July 17, 2011, and in the History of Medicine Gallery in the Medical Center and Archives Library from April 13-July 17, 2011.

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acwsoundsystem: X-Ray origami anyone? Japanese student Takayuki Hori printed skeletons of eight endangered species on translucent paper. When laid flat, all you see are scattered bones. Once the papers are folded together, however, the printed components unite as a whole, and the animals’ frames spring to life!

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artlistpro: Anne Gilman Bone Scan (final portait)2005pencil and charcoal on medical paper111” x 91” (via Anne Gilman : Scrolls : Multi-panel Scrolls) bookron: 

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geneticist: An X-ray showing the coronary arteries of the heart. 

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hotparade: Robert Rauschenberg - Booster Considered the most important print in Rauschenberg’s career, the print consists of a life‐size X‐ray image of Rauschenberg himself and other seemingly random images. At the time of its creation it was the largest hand-­pulled single‐sheet print ever made and catapulted printmaking into a new era of experimentation. via

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milkdrop:anthrax-letters: This human heart has had the fat and extra tissue removed, leaving pure angel-hair blood vessels to make up its shape.

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"Like the human body, the book is a form of information transmission and storage that incorporates its encodings in a durable material substrate. Once encoding in the material base has taken place, it cannot easily be changed. Print and proteins in this sense have more in common with each other than with any magnetic or electronic encodings, which can be erased and rewritten simply by changing the magnetic polarities. The metaphors of books, alphabets and printing pervasive in the discourse of genetics are constituted through and by this similarity of corporeal encoding in books and bodies."

— N. Katherine Hayles
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, 1999

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eritissimilesdeo: Fernando Vicente http://www.fernandovicente.es/

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Viewpoints by Karen M. Wirth Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1995 [silkscreen, paper, Fresnel lenses] [Karen Wirth] fills her book with drawings and photographs representing 300 years of observation at microscopic and macroscopic levels. She combines Hooke’s first drawings and views of cell structures with telescopic images of the Earth and electron-scanning images of the human body, in her own exploration of these normally invisible universes. from the exhibition Science and the Artist’s Book