Crivellato Enrico, Ribatti Domenico
Department of Medical and Morphological Research, Anatomy Section, University of Udine Medical School, Udine, Italy.
Clin Anat. 2008 May;21(4):279-82. doi: 10.1002/ca.20626.
This historical note focuses on some of the earliest reports of human anatomy found in Greek medical literature. These passages testify the initial steps taken by Greek scientists in building a theoretical model of the human body. In these excerpts, one finds erroneous anatomical descriptions, which shed light on the epistemological approach used by these intellectual pioneers. Because of the lack of systematic dissection, it appears that early Greek anatomists developed a somewhat stylized idea of the human body that used a certain degree of symmetry. Overcoming the concept of a strict left-right bilateral parallelism in human body architecture was a challenging intellectual task that required prolonged observation of dissected corpses.
这篇历史笔记聚焦于希腊医学文献中发现的一些最早的人体解剖学报告。这些段落证明了希腊科学家在构建人体理论模型方面迈出的最初几步。在这些摘录中，可以发现错误的解剖学描述，这揭示了这些知识先驱者所采用的认识论方法。由于缺乏系统的解剖，早期希腊解剖学家似乎形成了一种有点程式化的人体观念，这种观念运用了一定程度的对称性。克服人体结构中严格的左右双侧平行概念是一项具有挑战性的智力任务，需要对解剖后的尸体进行长期观察。
