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Pam Lieske. I met her through an 18th Century mailing list. She had just published "William Smellie's Use of Obstetrical Machines and the Poor" in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture and was starting her book on 18th Century obstetrics. Her help in designing the soul-injecting machine was invaluable. Even more exciting was connecting the dots together and coming up with the hypothesis that Catharina Schrader and Ruysch knew each other. Rosamond Purcell, for her previous interest in Ruysch, for the amazing pictures and for mentioning the not-enough-room issue during a nice afternoon at Bergamot Station. Nelson Gidding, for being a true fan of the script and for helping me get rid of crap and anachronisms. Tom Abrams, who had to endure my nonsensical ramblings at the outlining stages and Ted Braun, who went through earlier drafts of the script and took them seriously. Karin Lanzoni and everyone at the Special Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Val, for teaching me how to embalm real people over e-mail. Jack Lynch for the Eighteenth-Century Resources page that I used often. Johan T. Padding, for telling me more than I needed to know about Dutch butterflies in the seventeen hundreds. I'm sorry I turned them into crabs. Caroline Rule, for re-reading the script without me asking her to. B.S. Albinus, for all the punishment. Gavin Bryars, for the constant loop. |
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