In January 1803 the anatomist and electrical showman Giovanni Aldini shocked London with a ghoulish experiment.

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Galileo had taught the monk Castell, who had taught Borelli, who had taught the anatomist Malpighi, who had taught Valsalva, who had taught Morgagni, who had taught him.

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Resemblances between his work and that of Rodin, Dali and others are, he says, coincidental although the black fedora apparently plastinated to his head is a nod towards the anatomist's hat in a famous portrait by Rembrandt.

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Most prominent was the British paleontologist, biologist, and comparative anatomist Richard Owen, who coined the term dinosauria (Greek for "great lizards"), and in 1853 opened a Dinosaur Court in London's Crystal Palace, holding a banquet in the belly of an ersatz iguanodon.

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