To designate the locations of organs by the relation of animals to the surface of the earth is as far from philosophical as it would be to define the position of a house or of a tree by reference to the planet Jupiter.


A Partial Revision of Anatomical Nomenclature, Science, March 29, 1881 (p. 122)


To designate the locations of organs by the relation of animals to the surface of the earth is as far from philosophical as it would be to define the ...

To designate the locations of organs by the relation of animals to the surface of the earth is as far from philosophical as it would be to define the ...

To designate the locations of organs by the relation of animals to the surface of the earth is as far from philosophical as it would be to define the ...

To designate the locations of organs by the relation of animals to the surface of the earth is as far from philosophical as it would be to define the ...