anatomical theatre
Built in 1911 for the medical faculty after the theatre at Padua: a funnel of six elliptical tiers of dark walnut, so steep that the top rail hangs almost over the floor, and in the roof a round oculus through which the white falls straight down. The dissection table was taken out in 1964. In its place is a circle of chalk on scrubbed pine boards, renewed before every review, and the Proctor's high chair on the first tier. Spectators stand at the rails as the students of anatomy once stood, thre...
Located in The Möbius Academy.