I Speak to You Through Electrical Language: Traveling Into the Nineteenth Century with the “Nervous Icon”
June 3, 2012 The image on page 401 of George W. Hunter’s 1907 Elements of Biology is strikingly out of place. It is a Greek bronze flattened to a black silhouette. A woodblock engraving in a textbook otherwise illustrated with halftone photographs. A relic of Renaissance anatomy covered by the soot of the Age of…