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Advertising cadavers in the republic of letters: anatomical publications in the early modern Netherlands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2008

DÁNIEL MARGÓCSY
DÁNIEL MARGÓCSY
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Department of History of Science, Harvard University, Science Center 371, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Email: [email protected].
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Abstract

This paper sketches how late seventeenth-century Dutch anatomists used printed publications to advertise their anatomical preparations, inventions and instructional technologies to an international clientele. It focuses on anatomists Frederik Ruysch (1638–1732) and Lodewijk de Bils (1624–69), inventors of two separate anatomical preparation methods for preserving cadavers and body parts in a lifelike state for decades or centuries. Ruysch's and de Bils's publications functioned as an ‘advertisement’ for their preparations. These printed volumes informed potential customers that anatomical preparations were aesthetically pleasing and scientifically important but did not divulge the trade secrets of the method of production. Thanks to this strategy of non-disclosure and advertisement, de Bils and Ruysch could create a well-working monopoly market of anatomical preparations. The ‘advertising’ rhetorics of anatomical publications highlight the potential dangers of equating the growth of print culture with the development of an open system of knowledge exchange.

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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , June 2009 , pp. 187 - 210
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Copyright © 2008 British Society for the History of Science

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24 At the late burgomaster Gerbrand Pancras's collections sale “2 stuks extra van Juffrouw Ruys” are mentioned (10 March 1716), Dudok van Heel, op. cit. (23). On 21 February 1719 the late Jacob van Hoek's collection was advertised for sale by H. Sorg (the painter Hendrick Sorgh), including a painting by Rachel Ruysch. Together with the same Sorg and a certain P. Steen, Frederik Ruysch Pool arranged for the sale of the late Cornelis Nuyts's collection of paintings, as can be seen in an advertisement from 8 March 1718.

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26 Amsterdamsche Courant, 25 September 1731. By 1771 the sale of such collections became such a public event that a catalogue of the sale of Gerrit Braamcamp's collection of paintings was sold in almost one thousand copies, only to be pirated by another bookseller, and to be thereafter followed by a new edition at a reduced price from the original publishers. See G. Braamcamp, Catalogus van het uytmuntend Cabinet, Amsterdam, 1771; C. Bille, De tempel der kunst, of, Het kabinet van den heer Braamcamp, 2 vols., Amsterdam, 1961.

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28 The Russian court also ordered air pumps with the help of Musschenbroek's catalogues (as well as illustrations in 's Gravesande's works) and relied mostly on long-distance correspondence to arrange matters, including getting positive references from 's Gravesande for Musschenbroek's work and receiving instructions for the assembly of the pump. Daniel Schumacher to Albertus Seba, St Petersburg, 23 June 1718, Archives of the St Petersburg branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (subsequently RAS Archives), Fond I Opis 3 Dela 2 f. 95; Daniel Schumacher to Johann Musschenbroek, 14 March 1724, RAS Archives, Fond I Opis 3 Dela 2 f. 197; Daniel Schumacher to [Johann Musschenbroek], 9 March 1726, RAS Archives, Fond I Opis 3 Dela 2 f. 332; 's Gravesande to Daniel Schumacher, 23 August 1724, RAS Archives, Fond I Opis 3 Dela 8 f. 153; Johann van Musschenbroek to Daniel Schumacher, 1724, RAS Archives, Fond I Opis 3 Dela 8 f. 289.

29 S. Blankaart, Anatomia reformata, 3rd edn, Leiden, 1695, Verhandeling wegens het balsemen der menschelyke Lighamen, art. XXVI.

30 S. Blankaart, Verhandelinge van het podagra, Amsterdam, 1684, 294–301. See also J. Banga, Geschiedenis van de geneeskunde en van hare beoefenaren in Nederland (ed. G. A. Lindeboom), Schiedam, 1975, 621–2. For a discussion of secrets in the English scene see M. Pelling, Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London: Patronage, Physicians, and Irregular Practitioners 1550–1640, Oxford, 2003; and Cook, op. cit. (27). For the French scene see C. S. Le Paulmier, L'Orviétan: Histoire d'une famille de charlatans du Pont-Neuf aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Paris, 1893.

31 On Van der Heyden see P. C. Sutton, Jan van der Heyden: 1637–1712, New Haven, 2006; L. de Vries, Jan van der Heyden, Amsterdam, 1984. The fire-fighting side of Van der Heyden is analysed in J. van der Heyden, A Description of Fire Engines with Water Hoses and the Method of Fighting Fires now used in Amsterdam (tr. and with introduction by L. Stibbe Multhauf), Canton, 1996. See also the slightly different case of Cornelius Meijer in K. van Berkel, ‘“Cornelius Meijer inventor et fecit:” on the representation of science in late seventeenth-century Rome’, in Merchants and Marvels: Commerce and Representation of Nature in Early Modern Europe (ed. P. Smith and P. Findlen), London, 2002, 277–96.

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33 Braudel traces the history of shop windows to 1728, when they appeared in London. F. Braudel, The Wheels of Commerce (Civilization and Capitalism: 15th–18th Century Vol. II), London, 1981, 68, citing a French visitor: ‘What we do not on the whole have in France, is glass like this, generally very fine and very clear. The shops are surrounded with it and usually the merchandise is arranged behind it, which keeps the dust off, while still displaying the goods to passers-by, presenting a fine sight from every direction.’ [P.-J. Fougeroux], Voiage d'Angleterre, d'Hollande et de Flandre, 1728, Victoria and Albert Museum, 86 NN 2, f. 29.

34 The sale in England might have come about because William of Orange also brought several Dutch fire engines to England as part of his Glorious Revolution. Van der Heyden, op. cit. (31); Lindeboom, Letters of Jan Swammerdam, op. cit. (22), 12–13.

35 The work of Frederik Ruysch has recently gained much interest. Works with appeal to the larger public, e.g. P. Blom's To Have and to Hold, Woodstock, 2002; or R. Wolff Purcell and S. J. Gould, Finders, Keepers, New York, 1992, feature informative articles on Ruysch's collection. The best biography until recently was P. Scheltema, Het leven van Frederik Ruysch, Sliedrecht, 1886; but Kooijmans, op. cit. (2), has raised the standard much higher, with a keen eye to issues of secrecy, priority debates and preservation methods, though he pays somewhat less attention to the marketing strategies of Ruysch. An English biography can be found in M. Berardi, ‘Science into art: Rachel Ruysch's early development as a still-life painter’, Ph.D dissertation, Pittsburgh, 1998, AAT 9837555. See also A. M. Luyendijk-Elshout, ‘“An der Klaue erkennt man den Löwen,” aus den Sammlungen des Frederik Ruysch’, in Macrocosmos in Microcosmo, die Welt in der Stube: zur Geschichte des Sammelns, 1450 bis 1800 (ed. A. Grote), Opladen, 1994, 643–60; J. V. Hansen, ‘Galleries of life and death: the anatomy lesson in Dutch art, 1603–1773’, Ph.D dissertation, Stanford, 1996, AAT 9702901; and idem, ‘Resurrecting death: anatomical art in the cabinet of Dr. Frederik Ruysch’, Art Bulletin (1996), 78, 663–79.

36 B. le Bovier de Fontenelle, ‘Eloge de Monsieur Ruysch’, in idem, Historie de l'Académie royale des sciences, 4 vols., Paris, 1785, iv, 196.

37 Jan Swammerdam to Melchisédec Thévenot, 1671, in Lindeboom, Letters of Jan Swammerdam, op. cit. (22), 63. I owe this reference to Eric Jorink.

38 On the cultures of museums, collecting and curiosities see L. Daston and K. Park, Wonders and the Order of Nature, New York, 1995; O. Impey and A. Macgregor (eds.), The Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Europe, Oxford, 1985; K. Pomian, Collectors and Curiosities: Paris and Venice, 1500–1800, Cambridge, 1990; A. Schnapper, Collections et collectionneurs dans la France du XVIIe siècle, 2 vols., Paris, 1988–94; P. Findlen, Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy, Berkeley, 1994; P. Smith and P. Findlen (eds.), Merchants and Marvels: Commerce and Representation of Nature in Early Modern Europe, London, 2002; Kistemaker and Bergvelt, op. cit. (15).

39 The expression occurs very frequently throughout Ruysch's works; see for instance his description of the face of a young child: ‘Aangesichte zeer schoon, wel besneden en levendig van couleur is.’ F. Ruysch, Thesaurus IV, Amsterdam, 1701–7, 9. Unless otherwise specified, I am quoting Ruysch's works from his Opera omnia anatomico-medico-chirurgica, 4 vols., Amsterdam, 1721–7.

40 On the wide variety of visitors see the partially surviving guest books preserved at the library of the University of Amsterdam. Frederik Ruysch, Album Frederik Ruysch, UBA MS IE 20 and 21.

41 F. Ruysch, Observationum anatomico-chirurgiarum centuria et Catalogus rariorum, Amsterdam, 1691.

42 On the concept of paratexts see G. Genette, Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation, Cambridge, 1997.

43 Ruysch, Thesaurus IV, 24. See also F. Ruysch, Thesaurus V, Amsterdam, 1701–7, 5.

44 See also S. Dúzs, ‘Hogyan utazott 170 évvel ezelőtt a magyar calvinista candidatus’, Debreceni Protestáns Lap (1884), 44–59. Kooijmans, op. cit. (2), claims that medical professionals could enter free of charge, but other visitors had to pay an entrance fee. On advertisements, and how Ruysch used them in advertising his public anatomical dissections, see W. S. Hecksher, Rembrandt's Anatomy of Dr. Nicolaas Tulp: An Iconological Study, New York, 1958.

45 M. B. Valentini, Musaeum musaeorum, oder vollständige SchauBühne aller Materialien und Specereyen, Frankfurt, 1714, 2, Appendix XIIX, 59–61. For instance, Johann Conrad Rassel's collection in Halberstadt had opening hours every Tuesday and Friday between two and four o'clock for local visitors, and had open doors for travellers passing through the country each day of the week. Valentini, op. cit., Appendix XIX, 61–9.

46 J. Driessen-van het Reve, De Kunstkamera van Peter de Grote: De Hollandse inbreng, gereconstrueerd uit brieven van Albert Seba en Johann Daniel Schumacher uit de jaren 1711–1752, Hilversum, 2006, 130–2.

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53 E.g. F. Ruysch, Thesaurus II, Amsterdam, 1701–7, 16, where a “phiala continens duas portiones Penis Virilis” was exhibited.

54 F. Ruysch, Epistola tertia ad Gaubium, 23, in idem, Opera omnia, op. cit. (39).

55 ‘Proinde facile, ut spero, connivebit Dominus, quod voto tuo respondere, Scrotique praeparationem supra citatam publice notam facere nondum induci possim, neque, ut mihi persuadeo, id a me exiges, cum mecum perpendas, quam multi dentur, qui instar Corniculae Aesopicae alienis superbire gaudeant plumis. Accuratam autem delineationem arteriarum anterioris partis Scroti Tibi denegare nequeo, quam tabulae secundae Figura secunda repraesentat.’ F. Ruysch, Epistola secunda ad Gaubium, 17, in idem, Opera omnia, op. cit. (39).

56 Driessen, op. cit. (46). The following section is heavily based on Driessen's findings.

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59 Driessen, op. cit. (46), 86–103.

60 Driessen, op. cit. (46), 107–17.

61 Driessen, op. cit. (46), 131–2.

62 Ruysch recalled that Peter once called him ‘his teacher’, and thereby immediately inverted the usual patronage relationship.

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64 Gemeentearchief Amsterdam 5075, Notarial Archives Abraham Tzeewen, inv. 7598, 17 April 1717; Driessen, op. cit. (46), 139–40.

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67 Gemeentearchief Amsterdam 5075, Notarial Archives Abraham Tzeewen, inv. 7648, 28 December 1730.

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74 See Biagioli, op. cit. (20); D. Freedberg, The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History, Chicago, 2002; Findlen, op. cit. (38); B. T. Moran, Patronage and Institutions: Science, Technology, and Medicine at the European Court, 1500–1750, Rochester, 1991; Pumphrey, S., ‘Science and patronage in England, 1570–1625: a preliminary study’, History of Science (2004), 42, 137–88.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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76 Gemeentearchief Amsterdam 5075, Notarial Archives Abraham Tzeewen, inv. 7598, 17 April 1717.