Frederik Ruysch
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Frederik Ruysch was a Dutch botanist and anatomist. He is known for developing techniques for preserving anatomical specimens, which he used to create dioramas or scenes incorporating human parts. His
Frederik Ruysch, by his son-in-law Juriaen Pool
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Frederick Ruysch by Jan van Neck (1683). Amsterdam Museum.
Illustration of critique of Thesaurus anatomicus... published in Acta Eruditorum, 1704
Caspar Commelijn
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Caspar Commelijn or Caspar Commelin, was a Dutch botanist.
Frederik Ruysch
…as a forensic advisor to the Amsterdam courts and in 1685 as a professor of botany in the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, where he worked with Jan and Caspar Commelin. Ruysch specialized in indigenous plants. Ruysch researched many areas of human anatomy, and physiology, using spirits to preserve organs, and assembled…
Caspar Commelijn
Inspectors of the Collegium Medicum - 1724 by Cornelis Troost (left to right) Hendrik van Bronkhorst, Jeronimo de Bosch, Daniël van Buren, Martinus Haesbaert, Caspar Commelin and Joost ter Pelkwijk