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Andrew Cunningham, « Protestant anatomy », Publications de l'École Française de Rome, ID : 10670/1.8hov8o
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Exposition of the three ways in which some anatomising became 'protestant' in the early years of the Reformation : 1. by being made fundamental to philosophical study of the soul in Protestant universities ; 2. by taking the Lutheran challenge to authority as its model in seeking a ground of authority, as in the case of Vesalius, and hence preferring the text of the body to the text of the ancients ; and 3. by rejecting altogether the tradition of anatomising the body for the outward eyes, in favour of an anatomy of inner revelation, as with Paraceslsus. Only further research will show whether there were, after the Reformation, further new traditions of research in anatomy which can authentically be recognised as Protestant.