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ANNALS OF SCIENCE BEST PAPER PRIZE 2021

Anatomizing the pulse: Edmund King’s analogy, observation and conception of the tubular body

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Pages 292-319 | Received 22 Nov 2021, Accepted 22 Nov 2021, Published online: 08 Jul 2022

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Figure 1. A recto with a space deliberately left blank to imply the insertion of the corresponding image in the future print version, from MS Sloane 1586. Courtesy of the British Library, London.

Figure 1. A recto with a space deliberately left blank to imply the insertion of the corresponding image in the future print version, from MS Sloane 1586. Courtesy of the British Library, London.

Figure 2. The distinct arterial and venous coats, from Thomas Willis, Pharmaceutice rationalis (Hague, 1677), Table VI, Sect. 1, Cap. 1, & 2. Courtesy of the Wellcome Library, London.

Figure 2. The distinct arterial and venous coats, from Thomas Willis, Pharmaceutice rationalis (Hague, 1677), Table VI, Sect. 1, Cap. 1, Fig. 1 & 2. Courtesy of the Wellcome Library, London.

Figure 3. Fig. I. The dissected parts of human testicles, which comprise ‘nothing else but a congeries of Vessels of various sorts, and their several Liquors’, from Edmund King, Philosophical Transactions, 4, Issue 52 (1669). Courtesy of the Royal Society, London.

Figure 3. Fig. I. The dissected parts of human testicles, which comprise ‘nothing else but a congeries of Vessels of various sorts, and their several Liquors’, from Edmund King, Philosophical Transactions, 4, Issue 52 (1669). Courtesy of the Royal Society, London.

Figure 4. Edmund King’s sketch of Jonathan Goddard’s device for showing the volume change of the human arm during the pulse, from MS Sloane 1587. Courtesy of the British Library, London.

Figure 4. Edmund King’s sketch of Jonathan Goddard’s device for showing the volume change of the human arm during the pulse, from MS Sloane 1587. Courtesy of the British Library, London.