RE: Women’s Anatomy
Koen G > 31-01-2019, 11:54 PM
This does come up regularly, and indeed you will find many people who agree.
Granted, many of these shapes have an organic quality to them. As I've said elsewhere though, I believe it is a fallacy to take the intention of this image as depicting the female reproductive system. We recognise it because the shape is familiar from the textbook image.
But medieval people did not have such an image. Look up how they drew the womb in medieval manuscripts, it's more like a bottle with a small person inside.
Then the discussion usually turns towards how they could have seen the real organs in an execution or whatnot. But again, the real organs would not have this distinct shape.
They knew there was a baby-bag in the woman's body, but that's about it. The comparison with the threefold structure we know now is anachronistic, in my opinion.