20-12-2020, 05:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 20-12-2020, 05:41 PM by RenegadeHealer.
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Nice one, Michelle. I love historical medical reference books. I remember before cutting apart a cadaver at the very beginning of Anatomy and Physiology, our professor showed us a slideshow of historical anatomy atlases from around the world, some of them manuscripts composed centuries ago. I remember him saying it's not hard to tell which ones were composed by people who had really cut apart a human body and had a good look (and other sensory experiences) at what's inside, as opposed to ones were composed by authors who were little more than copyists and compilers, and who relied on others to do that dirtywork.
If that's rib VII attached to vertebra T7, then the natural movement of that set of bones is quite unlike that of tongs, calipers, or compasses. Rib VII is one of the so-called "bucket handle ribs", and the movement on inhalation involves each of the ribs tilting up and out of the screen, like lifting the handle on the side of a bucket, rotating about an axis that looks vertical to us. They never pinch closer together, or rotate about an axis going into the screen at the vertebra. I also have never encountered a disarticulated singular thoracic segment like this, except as an anatomical exemplar like your pic.
I went down a slightly different rabbit hole, MichelleL11, looking for any historical or etymological connection between clippers / calipers / tongs / pincers, and single thoracic segments of animal bones, to see if one might have served as the prototype for the other, or inspired the invention of the other. Alas, other than the superficial similarity in appearance, I could find no deep connection.
However, as I'm sure Koen and R. Sale would agree, an image ambiguating between 2+ seemingly unrelated or cryptically related things at once — seems much more consistent with the VMs than a visual metaphor combining two clearly connected things, to say nothing of an image that's wholly unambiguous.
Speaking of which Koen, I spent a few minutes staring at Q13 seeing if I could come up with a good possible candidate image for the Serpent. So far no epiphanies, nor even any apophanies. You'll be the first to know if I change my mind on this.
If that's rib VII attached to vertebra T7, then the natural movement of that set of bones is quite unlike that of tongs, calipers, or compasses. Rib VII is one of the so-called "bucket handle ribs", and the movement on inhalation involves each of the ribs tilting up and out of the screen, like lifting the handle on the side of a bucket, rotating about an axis that looks vertical to us. They never pinch closer together, or rotate about an axis going into the screen at the vertebra. I also have never encountered a disarticulated singular thoracic segment like this, except as an anatomical exemplar like your pic.
I went down a slightly different rabbit hole, MichelleL11, looking for any historical or etymological connection between clippers / calipers / tongs / pincers, and single thoracic segments of animal bones, to see if one might have served as the prototype for the other, or inspired the invention of the other. Alas, other than the superficial similarity in appearance, I could find no deep connection.
However, as I'm sure Koen and R. Sale would agree, an image ambiguating between 2+ seemingly unrelated or cryptically related things at once — seems much more consistent with the VMs than a visual metaphor combining two clearly connected things, to say nothing of an image that's wholly unambiguous.
Speaking of which Koen, I spent a few minutes staring at Q13 seeing if I could come up with a good possible candidate image for the Serpent. So far no epiphanies, nor even any apophanies. You'll be the first to know if I change my mind on this.