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Picturing the book of nature : image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kusukawa, Sachiko
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Natural history illustration > Europe > History > 16th century.
Botanical illustration > Europe > History > 16th century.
Medical illustration > History > 16th century.
Illustrated books > Europe > History > 16th century.
Art and science > History > 16th century.
NATURE / Essays.
NATURE / Reference.
TRAVEL / Special Interest / Ecotourism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Printing pictures
  • Techniques and craftsmen
  • Publishers' calculations
  • Copying and coloring
  • Control
  • Picturing medicinal plants
  • Accidents and arguments : Fuchs's De historia stirpium
  • Arguments over pictures : reactions to Fuchs's De historia stirpium
  • Gessner and the making of the Historia plantarum
  • The authority of pictures : Gessner, Mattioli, and Jamnitzer
  • Picturing human anatomy
  • Vesalius and the bloodletting controversy
  • The canon of the human body : Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica
  • Text, image, body, and the book.