Anatomy and architecture: the Osler collection at the CCA.
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In this essay, Prof. Pérez-Gómez explains the themes and ideas behind this unusual exhibition, and the special role that the Osler books will play. During the summer of 2001, twelve precious volumes from the collections of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine will be on display at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, as part of the exhibition Architecture and the Cloud of Numbers: Between the Body and the World.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Osler Library newsletter
دوره 94 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001