“It seems indeed, to be a work that requires some exactness.” - Page 230 · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: “It seems indeed, to be a work that requires some exactness.” - Page 230
Subject: Scholars in Literature; Scientists in Literature; Politics in Literature; Medicine; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Balnibarbi; England; Lagado; Laputa
Description: During his time on Balnibarbi Gulliver visited the Grand Academy of Lagado and the scholars who worked there. At the academy, several doctors worked to resolve political differences through medical intervention. One doctor suggested that issues could be resolved by cutting into the brains of two opposing politicians and switching half their brains. The idea behind this was that the two halves of the brain would see both sides of the argument more clearly and be able to come up with a compromise. In this image we see two doctors in the foreground performing this procedure, while behind them parliament argues.
Image Creator: T. Morten (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:22076
Language: eng
Source Name: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
Parent Collection: 1865 London Morten; 1865 London Morten
Image: mta_22076_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Scholars in Literature; Scientists in Literature; Politics in Literature; Medicine; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures