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This is done by a guy named Vesalius in the mid 1500s. He's considered my many to be one of the fathers of modern anatomy, one of the first people to question a lot of Galen's accepted wisdom. It's from "De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem," i.e. "On the Fabric of the Human Body in Seven Books." I love how he draws these bodies without skin, often flayed open to display their deeper anatomy, while still posed elegantly and placed in tangible landscapes. The way he describes the body is also rather beautiful, full of analogies and metaphors.