After centuries of mapping the human body in ever-finer detail, scientists are still making discoveries. Here we are, in 2025 ...

Scholars can examine rare volumes bound in human leather, part of libraries' collections. Many have some tie-in with the content. Anatomy Book's Cover Is More Than Skin Deep - Los Angeles Times ...

On October 29, at 1 p.m. ET, the Smithsonian Libraries is serving up an eerie tour of these centuries old anatomy books via the online video platform Periscope.

Gavin Francis is the author of a book that examines the wonders of human anatomy based in part on his experience as a doctor. This full body specimen injected with polymer preservative is from an ...

First Steps Jeremy DeSilva Harper, $27.99. No other animal moves the way we do. That’s awfully strange. Even among other two-legged species, none amble about with a straight back and a gait that ...

Her new book, “Nicole Angemi’s Anatomy Book: A Catalog of Familiar, Rare, and Unusual Pathologies” (Cernunnos/Abrams Books), applies that same fascination to an A-to-Z accounting of ...

Books bound in human skin might sound like the stuff of horror movies, ... and 16th-century Belgian anatomist Andreas Vesalius’ On the Fabric of the Human Body, the oldest book on anatomy, ...