Speaker: "The Four Seasons".
"Fall.
The same couple, 17 years older,
and fully mature pose with their arms crossed
and resting on each other's shoulder,
with each hand holding a flask, behind the other's head.
One flask is marked bilis flava, yellow bile or choler.
The sun, and moon are present in their usual positions.
The calendrical and zodiacal arches and the trees,
a pomegranate and a grapevine, frame the man and the woman.
A single stork carries the banner for Autumnus.
This print is the most intricate of the set of four
and has the greatest number of layers.
Two volvelles, or concentric paper disks
which rotate on a string pivot
and are surrounded by graduated or figured circles,
appear at the bottom of the print.
The lunar aspectarium is positioned
between the couple's legs.
It was used to compute the position of the moon
at the moment an illness began, called a decumbiture,
in order to aid the physician in treatment.
At the lower right is a pregnancy calendar
whose purpose was to calculate the time
from the presumed date of conception,
in order to predict the critical dates of development
for the fetus, up to the moment of birth.
At the lower left is a disk representing the five senses.
Plants and animals, a lion and an elephant,
appropriate to the seasoned and geographic region,
are represented in the background."
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"Arches.
Counting from the top down,
the arches record the stellar phases,
signs of the Zodiac, a calendar scale,
three types of months,
and the motion of the moon for this season."
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"Sun.
Sun covers dissected anatomy of the tongue.
Surface of tongue with glottis."
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"Internal musculature demonstrated
by four intricately folded flaps."
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"Moon.
This moon, which has no flap to lift,
is in the waxing crescent phase,
and should have been reversed
with the moon in Ver,
which presents the waning crescent."
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"Stork.
A Christian symbol for prudence and piety,
the stork generally represents the affection,
and care of children for their parents."
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"Pomegranate.
The pomegranate is a symbol of potential fertility."
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"Grapevine.
The vine laden with grapes reflects fertility realized."
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"Flask.
One flask holds bilis flava, also known as choler
or yellow bile, which rules hot and dry conditions."
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"Woman, 35 years.
Flaps reveals of breast, gravid uterus, and genitalia.
Surface vasculature of breast.
Possible image of a crab,
the astrological sign for Cancer, which rules the breast.
Lactiferous ducks.
Gravid uterus, relatively larger than life-size.
Uterus in cross section below, with capsular decidua above.
Amnion with fetal head showing through.
Fetus.
Posterior of fetus below interior of amnion above.
12 fetal positions
of which two are revealed underneath other positions."
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"Man, estimated 42 years old.
Flaps cover three sections of the anatomy,
chest, abdomen, and urogenital system.
Beneath the lungs is concealed the heart.
Chest cavity.
The heart has flaps for the pericardium,
the surface of the heart with coronary arteries,
right and left ventricles without atria and valves,
and posterior view of the pericardium."
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"Posterior of lungs above and open chest cavity below.
Abdominal cavity lacking most of gastrointestinal tract,
peritoneum overlaid by urogenital flaps."
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"Bladder and urethra above with prostate
and spermatic cord below."
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"Mesentery with individual flaps for spleen
and pancreas above, posterior view, bladder, prostate
and seminal vesicles below.
Retroperitoneal view with kidneys."
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"Five Senses.
The geographic map of Africa now missing,
probably covered the disk with the five senses,
sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch,
are each represented with appropriate symbols,
in an outer circle.
The inner circle represents the census communis
or common sense.
The spiral underneath the common sense represents memoria
or memory.
Handwriting visible underneath circle of senses."
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"Lunar Aspectarium.
The lunar aspectarium rotates around a scale representing
the zodiac.
When the index pointer on the rim is set to the position
of the moon at the moment an illness began,
the central pointer can then be moved to the number
of days that have elapsed since the decumbiture.
As a result, all significant aspects are indicated
and can be interpreted by the physician
for use in the treatment of the patient.
This flap which can not actually be viewed
as a whole because of the string pivot,
gives the physician information on qualities and humors
and advice on various fevers in the examination of urine.
Provides details on calculation of the childbed."
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"Pregnancy Calendar.
By rotating the dial of the pregnancy calendar
to the estimated date of conception,
other critical dates in the development
of the fetus are shown in the cutouts around the dial.
The horoscope was drawn up for Marsilio Landriani,
Bishop of Vigevano in Bologna Italy,
on the 22nd of May 1605,
to assist in the diagnosis and treatment
of an illness he first suffered, in January of 1602.
At any one time, only portions can be seen
by lifting the edge of the covering volvelle
which is anchored in the middle."
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