Homo signorum aneb Člověk a zodiak

“The anatomy of man’s body, as govern’d by the twelve constellations”, a woodcut from Poor Richard’s Almanack by Benjamin Franklin, ca. 1750 — Source

A zodiac man from Athanasius Kircher’s Mundus Subterraneus, 1678 — Source

A zodiac man from a Spanish manuscript — Source

A woodcut recreation of an image by A. G. de Brocar, 1495, in Johannes de Ketham’s Libro de medicina (1517) — Source

The vein man or Homo venorum as illustrated by Daniel Ricco, ca. 1690 — Source

A page from Michael of Rhodes‘ biographical manuscript, documenting his four decades of sea voyages, ca. 1445. The image relates to bloodletting, which was practiced according to the night sky’s ruling sign — Source

“Anatomical Man” from the Limbourgh brothers‘ Très riches Heures du duc de Berry (1415). The Latin inscriptions describe the zodiac signs‘ properties according to the four complexions (hot, cold, wet, dry) — Source

A Mesoamerican version of the zodiac man, reproduced in Edward King’s nine-volume Antiquities of Mexico (1831-1848) — Source

Illustration from Heymandus de Veteri Busco’s Ars computistica (1488) — Source

Bloodletting man showing the influence of zodiac and planets — Source

Dodd Delin, “View of the Celestial Influx on the Body of Woman . . .”, ca. 1800 — Source

Detail from Petrus Slovacius‘ Allmanach auff das 1581 jar, with an astrological key — Source

“Naked man surrounded by the twelve symbols of the zodiac” — Source

14th century drawing of an astrological man surrounded by information in Latin on zodiac properties — Source

Illustration from a parchment manuscript attributed to the Welsh poet Gutun Owain, ca. 1493 — Source

Watercolor painting by a nineteenth-century Persian artist — Source

Habit d’Astrologie by Gérard Valk, etched in the seventeenth century — Source