Between Body, Text and Image: Towards a Digital Atlas of Greco-Roman Anatomy
A Talk by Orly Lewis
Dr. Orly Lewis is a research fellow at The Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has published on ancient anatomy, physiology and diagnosis and the relation between theory and practice in ancient scientific method. She talked about the relation between scientific (anatomical) phenomena and textual and visual depictions of the phenomena, in particular: the methods and challenges in designing and recreating 2D and 3D visualisations of Greco-Roman anatomical ideas based on the ancient textual descriptions.
Her monograph (Brill, 2017) explores the ideas of the fourth- and third-century physician Praxagoras of Cos concerning air/pneuma and the vascular system; it was awarded the 2019 Young Historian Prize by the International Academy for the History of Science. Orly completed her PhD in Classics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2014). From the summer of 2020 she will be the Principal Investigator of a five-year research project on Greco-Roman anatomy (ERC Starting-Grant) and a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Classics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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