Smithsonian's History Explorer Resources Related To "YORICK, The Bionic Skeleton"

Artificial Anatomy: Body Parts

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:11:32 GMT

Students learn anatomy by matching images of body parts to their location on Jerome, a papier-mâché anatomical model. It is part of the online exhibition entitled Artificial Anatomy: Papier-Mâché Anatomical Models.

Artificial Anatomy: Collection

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:05:43 GMT

Students will explore an online Artificial Anatomy collection, containing over 30 papier-mâché anatomical models of humans, animals and plants.

Artificial Anatomy: History

Mon, 21 May 2012 13:12:46 GMT

Students will explore the history of papier-mâché anatomy, comparative anatomy, and methods of learning anatomy in the 20th century in this online exhibition.

Artificial Anatomy: Preservation

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:29:58 GMT

Students will learn the methods of preservation used in restoring the papier-mâché artificial anatomy collection. The exhibition covers the necessity for preservation, the examination methods used, as well as preservation techniques. This exhibition is also helpful for those students who are interested in the study of anatomy.

The Visible Human Project

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:49:37 GMT

The Visible Human Project and its website is an outgrowth of the United States National Library of Medicine’s 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies that are available for viewing on the internet. The long-term goal of the Visible Human Project is to produce a system of knowledge structures that will easily link images to symbolic knowledge formats such as the names of body parts.