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shape, in the centre of which would stand a table on which the dissection of human or animal bodies took place. Around this table were several circular, elliptic or octagonal tiers with railings, steeply tiered so that observers (typically students) could stand and observe the dissection below,
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universities. They were typically constructed with a tiered structure surrounding a central table, allowing a larger audience to see the
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A modern anatomical theatre using projections on a body model, in the Musme museum in Padua.
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is well-known, having been completed in 1663 by medical profession and amateur architect
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without spectators in the front-most rows blocking their view. It was common to display
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building, one of the older buildings of the university. Rudbeck had spent time in the
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in 1594, and has been preserved into the modern day. Other early examples include the
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Specialised building or room used to teach anatomy at early modern universities
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more closely than would have been possible in a non-specialized setting.
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The anatomical theatre in Gustavianum in Uppsala, built in 1663
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Acta Dermatovenerologica Alpina, Pannonica et Adriatica
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An anatomical theatre was usually a room of roughly
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Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
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Gustavianum
Uppsala

Archiginnasio of Bologna
Latin
theatre
anatomy
early modern
dissection
cadavers
amphitheatrical
skeletons
Anatomical Theatre of Padua
University of Padua
Theatrum Anatomicum
Leiden University
Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio
Bologna

University of Uppsala
Olaus Rudbeck
cupola
Gustavianum
Dutch
Leiden
Museum Gustavianum
Thomas Jefferson
University of Virginia
The first anatomical theatre University of Padua

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