The Illustrations from the Works of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels

Author: Andreas Vesalius
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486209687
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
This definitive edition combines the best plates and text from the great anatomist's Renaissance treasures, including Tabulae Sex, De Humani Corporis Fabrica, and the Epitome. Reproduced from a rare edition, these 96 plates recapture the vitality of the originals. Includes a discussion of the illustrations, a biographical sketch of Vesalius, annotations, and translations.

Andreas Vesalius

Author: Stephen N. Joffe
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1491874465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
Andreas Vesalius 1514-1564 By Stephen N. Joffe, M.D. Vesalius was the foremost pioneer of modern anatomy. Born in Brussels, he came from a family of physicians. Educated in Louvain, he studied medicine in Montpelier and Paris, returning to Louvain to teach anatomy. In 1535 he went to France to be an army surgeon to King Charles V and two years later became a professor of anatomy in Padua, Italy. Subsequently he became a physician to the court of Philip II of Spain. On a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, he received a call to return to Padua to occupy chair of Fallopius. In a storm leading to a shipwreck and subsequent death on the Isle of Zante, Vesalius was buried there in an unmarked grave in 1564. This marked the end of the ‘prince of anatomy.’ Vesalius’ book De Humani Corporus Fabrica published in Basel in 1543, contributes one of the greatest treasures of western civilization and culture. With its companion volume the Epitome, began the modern observational science and research.

Classic Anatomical Illustrations

Author: Vesalius
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486145387
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
An awe-inspiring fusion of art and science, this magnificent collection features detailed illustrations of human anatomy by history's most brilliant artists. Includes over 130 black-and-white renderings of muscles, skeletons, nervous systems, more.

The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius

Author: Dániel Margócsy
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004336303
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 537

Book Description
Winner of the Third Neu-Whitrow Prize (2021) granted by the Commission on Bibliography and Documentation of IUHPS-DHST Additional background information This book provides bibliographic information, ownership records, a detailed worldwide census and a description of the handwritten annotations for all the surviving copies of the 1543 and 1555 editions of Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica. It also offers a groundbreaking historical analysis of how the Fabrica traveled across the globe, and how readers studied, annotated and critiqued its contents from 1543 to 2017. The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius sheds a fresh light on the book’s vibrant reception history and documents how physicians, artists, theologians and collectors filled its pages with copious annotations. It also offers a novel interpretation of how an early anatomical textbook became one of the most coveted rare books for collectors in the 21st century.

The Illustrations from the Works of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels

Author: J. B. Saunders
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486316866
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Definitive edition features 96 of the best plates from the great anatomist's Renaissance treasures. Reproduced from a rare edition, with a discussion of the illustrations, biographical sketch of Vesalius, annotations, and translations.

Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564

Author: Charles Donald O'Malley
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 568

Book Description

Andreas Vesalius

Author: James Moores Ball
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anatomists
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description

Human Anatomy

Author: Benjamin A. Rifkin
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810997981
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Originally published in hardcover in 2006.

Vesalius: The China Root Epistle

Author: Andreas Vesalius
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113999221X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293

Book Description
This book provides the first annotated English translation from the original Latin of Andreas Vesalius' China Root Epistle. Ostensibly his appraisal of a fashionable herbal remedy, the China Root Epistle concentrates on Vesalius' skeptical appraisal of traditional Galenic anatomy, which was based on animal rather than human dissections. Along with reflections about his life as a young anatomist, Vesalius argued that the new science of anatomy should devote itself less to rhetorical polemics and more to the craft of direct observation based on human dissection. This volume provides annotations to link the Epistle with Vesalius' earlier and more famous work, On the Fabric of the Human Body, and includes illustrations from the famous woodcuts first used in the 1543 edition of the Fabrica.

Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine

Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393243346
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
"Ideas tumble out of Porter like wonders from some scholarly horn of plenty." —Sherwin B. Nuland, The New Republic An eminently readable, entertaining romp through the history of our vain and valiant efforts to heal ourselves. Mankind's battle to stay alive and healthy for as long as possible is our oldest, most universal struggle. With his characteristic wit and vastly informed historical scope, Roy Porter examines the war fought between disease and doctors on the battleground of the flesh from ancient times to the present. He explores the many ingenious ways in which we have attempted to overcome disease through the ages: the changing role of doctors, from ancient healers, apothecaries, and blood-letters to today's professionals; the array of drugs, from Ayurvedic remedies to the launch of Viagra; the advances in surgery, from amputations performed by barbers without anesthetic to today's sophisticated transplants; and the transformation of hospitals from Christian places of convalescence to modern medical powerhouses. Cleverly illustrated with historic line drawings, the chronic ailments of humanity provide vivid anecdotes for Porter's enlightening story of medicine's efforts to prevail over a formidable and ever-changing adversary.