Download or read book Death Defied written by Luuc Kooijmans and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until well into the nineteenth century, Frederik Ruysch enjoyed international fame as an anatomist. He owed his renown to a preparation method that greatly aided early-modern scientists in their exploration of the human body and transformed dissection from a messy business into a widely admired art.