Triumph of Intellect

Overcoming thought controls

In the Wittenberg monastery church, the burial of a woman of about 21 to 24 years of age was found during excavations. The skull, lying in a ceramic vessel, displays clear traces of a dissection. © State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt, Juraj Lipták.

In medicine and anatomy, as in alchemy, the study of ancient scripts became the impetus to comprehend creation more precisely. Evidence from the early days of anatomy is rare. In Wittenberg, the skeletons of two people were discovered, who in the early 16th century had been dissected by physicians of the university. Uniquely, the finds can be linked to studies by Augustin Schurff (1526) and Caspar Lindemann (1534) that are documented in writing.

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