Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: OT: Illustrations of pre-1800 surgical instruments

gagnonrich opened this issue on Apr 24, 2009 · 10 posts


gagnonrich posted Fri, 24 April 2009 at 4:24 PM

Attached Link: http://books.google.com/books?id=Lf1aAAAAQAAJ

Here's something that there aren't many, if any, Poser models for--early surgical instruments.  I found them while searching around Google Books.

It's very cool that we now have access to centuries old books that, even if they were available at a local library, the average person wouldn't have access to such rare manuscripts. I've had fun finding old historical books and reading the perspectives of the time rather than the interpretations by authors centuries later. Use the advanced search and click the Full Books radials to get search results for entire books that can be downloaded (most old enough that the copyright has long expired). Limiting published dates allows searching specific historical periods.  They've got books going back a thousand years (in Arabic), but English reading audiences are limited to books only about 300-400 years in age.

I don't have any immediate need for 200 year old surgical props, but I'm sure glad I didn't live back then.

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon