Alfred Mason Amadon

The Fold-Out Book of the Human Body: Classic 1906 Edition is a reprint of a detailed medical reference. Within it's 50 pages are three dimensional fold outs of the human body that were in use in medical schools in 1906. There are four "flap" style movables, some with as many as nine layers. The rest of the fifty pages are itemized details of each illustration. These sorts of atlases were heavily relied upon in yesteryear, in fact the very first pop-ups were created to illustrate scientific principles. My favorite in this book is the movable of the human eye, really interesting!… (mehr)