Anatomical Illustration (T. 28): William Cowper 1750

Author: William Cowper Date: 1750 Medium: Copperplate engraving Condition: Very good but with occasional spotting Inches: 14 1/2" x 20 1/8" Centimeters: 37.18 x 51.60 Product ID: 002768 From The Anatomy of Humane Bodies, Latin edition published 1750, William Dundas, Rudolph Schomberg, Utrecht.William Cowper was an English surgeon and anatomist, famous for his early description of what is now known as the Cowper's gland.Cowper was born in Petersfield, Hampshire, and was apprenticed to a London surgeon, William Bignall, in March of 1682. He was admitted to the Barber-Surgeon's Company in 1691 and began practicing in London the same year. In 1694, he published his noted work, Myotomia Reformata, or a New Administration of the Muscles, and he was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1696. In 1698, he published The Anatomy of the Humane Bodies, which gained him great fame and notoriety.Some have called Cowper's Anatomy of the Humane Bodies one of the greatest acts of plagiarism