Andreas Vesalius and the Fabrica in the age of printing : art, anatomy and printing in the Italian Renaissance /
Andreas Vesalius's fame derives from his writing of what is perhaps the most famous book in the history of medical science, 'De humanis corporis fabrica' (1543), a treatise that within a few years transformed the imperfect art of anatomy into a modern science. This extraordinary work,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Turnhout :
Brepols,
[2018]
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| Series: | Cursor mundi (Turnhout, Belgium) ;
v. 33. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Venice and Venetian printing. The culture of Venice in the age of Vesalius and the Aldine press / Kenneth Bartlett
- Aldus Manutius and the world of Venetian publishing / Angela Nuovo
- Aldus Manutius's unfulfilled dream: Galen's journey from Campro Sant'Agostin to western culture / Lorenzo Perilli
- Part II. Paduan anatomy and the Fabrica. 'Fair Padua' as a centre of Renaissance anatomy / Andrew Cunningham
- Jan Steven van Calcar c. 1515
- c. 1546, Vesalius;s illustrator / Monique Kornell
- Vesalius's methods in the production of the Fabrica with emphasis on the neuroanatomy chapters / Rinaldo F. Canalis
- Part III. Anatomy after the Fabrica: Padua and beyond. Gabrielle Falloppia: Vesalius's admirer and first critic / Rinaldo F. Canalis
- Anatomy in colour: Girolamo Fabrici d'Acquapendente (c. 1537-1619) / Raffaele de Caro
- Cut, copy, and English anatomy: Thomas Geminus and the reordering of Vesalius's canonical body / Melissa Lo
- Part IV. A twenty-first-century perspective. Vesal, 'for what he represents': Vesaliana in William Osler's collections / Hélène Cazes
- Habent sua fata libelli: the Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine collection at UCLA / Victoria Steele
- Illuminating the science of life / Christine D. Young.