{"id":1945,"date":"2011-11-09T16:01:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T20:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www3.arts.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2017-09-27T12:46:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T16:46:07","slug":"scientific-illustration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2011\/11\/09\/scientific-illustration\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Illustration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"By Odoardo Fialetti, 1627 Venice\" src=\"http:\/\/29.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lt3caueE7R1qze7sso1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"465\" \/>From around the age of 14 on, I have been fascinated by scientific illustrations.\u00c2\u00a0 As a teenager, my room was filled with anatomical drawings; when my grandma was diagnosed with lung cancer I sent her a detailed charcoal drawing of a set of lungs.\u00c2\u00a0 I still believe they are ridiculously underappreciated as an art form, though I also think their quality has declined with the advent of digital technology that can just produce a model on a computer.\u00c2\u00a0 Meticulously \u00c2\u00a0drawn diagrams of plants and animal bone structures always captured my attention in biology class far more than the lessons being taught, but I have no doubt that these illustrations helped me to understand the beautiful intricacies of science better.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only do they serve an aesthetic purpose but they are instructional, and I for one have no problem with art being used as a tool to <\/p>\n<div style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: -5432px;\">unibet uk online casino welcome bonus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukonlinecasinobonus.co.uk\/unibet-casino\/\">ukonlinecasinobonus.co.uk<\/a> unibet uk online casino welcome bonus at first deposit <\/div>\n<p> get people interested in or excited about academics.\u00c2\u00a0 Prior to photography, they served as a means of relaying information all over the world; for example, zoologists in England could see what a rhino looked like without ever having seen one in person.\u00c2\u00a0 It used to be in Europe that only executed prisoners were allowed to be dissected (and occasionally in public).\u00c2\u00a0 Due to Christian convictions at the time, it was believed that dissection prevented any possibility of entering heaven and the forgiveness of the deceased\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sins.\u00c2\u00a0 Many anatomical illustrations are, in fact, of executed criminals.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Anatomical Illustration of the Womb\" src=\"http:\/\/29.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_ltdw5iazFE1qk931ho1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From around the age of 14 on, I have been fascinated by scientific illustrations.\u00c2\u00a0 As a teenager, my room was filled with anatomical drawings; when my grandma was diagnosed with lung cancer I sent her a detailed charcoal drawing of a set of lungs.\u00c2\u00a0 I still believe they are ridiculously underappreciated as an art form, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8453,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions\/8453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}