(07-03-2016, 08:46 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.JKP
An unambiguous phallus in the biological section? Which one do you mean?
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Well, I could be wrong, but the diagram in the middle-left of folio 77v looked to me like an ejaculating penis (whether urine or semen, I don't know) from the first moment I saw it. The other drawings on the page look suggestive of fallopian tubes or uteruses or vaginas (I'm not certain what they are, but they an internal sexual anatomy feeling to them).
There were prohibitions against carving up human cadavers in those days, but they did do it in some of the universities, they were permitted to dissect animals, Caesarian sections did exist, many people butchered their own animals for meat, and there were enough people drawn and quartered in public squares, or sliced to bits on battlefields, that I'm pretty sure the medieval community was far more familiar with internal anatomy than our public school system has led us to believe, in fact, far more than the average person today.
So... to me it looks like she is standing in the testicles and it's male anatomy. Have I been wrong in assuming other people see it that way as well?