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S01E05 - "Gray's Anatomy"
Aired on Sep 10, 2014, 7:30 PM
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Episodes (1 Season · 5 Episodes)
Galen and Leonardo
Adam Rutherford begins his series by looking at the work of the 2nd century Roman anatomist Claudius Galen and the artist and part-time dissector Leonardo da Vinci.
Aug 13, 2014
30 min
Andreas Vesalius
Adam Rutherford tells the story of 16th-century anatomist Andreas Vesalius, who produced the first complete account of the human body and how to dissect it.
Aug 20, 2014
30 min
Rembrandt and Ruysch
Adam Rutherford travels to Holland to find out what it was that drew Rembrandt to anatomy and why dissecting bodies was thought a suitable subject for high art.
Aug 27, 2014
30 min
The Hunter Brothers
How the Hunter brothers transformed medicine and art in 18th-century Britain, believing that anatomy could only be learnt by performing dissections.
Sep 3, 2014
30 min
Gray's Anatomy
Adam Rutherford tells the story of how Henry Gray and Henry Carter put their bestseller Gray's Anatomy together based on dissections they personally performed.
Sep 10, 2014
30 min
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