On 22 June 183, the anatomist and surgeon Sir Charles Bell published The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design as the fourth of eight Bridgewater Treatises. Its publication is part of a century-long fascination with a body part that rests in an uneasy ideological position between animality and mechanization. Image: Illustration from Sir Charles Bell's The Hand 115. This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.

Articles

Peter Capuano, “On Sir Charles Bell’s The Hand, 1833″