Feature ReviewOn the Fabric of the Human Body. Book 1: The Bones and Cartilages. Andreas Vesalius , William Franck Richardson , John Burd CarmanOn the Fabric of the Human Body. Book 2: The Ligaments and Muscles. Andreas Vesalius , William Franck Richardson , John Burd Carman

Isis ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Carlino
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Andreas Vesalius

scholarly journals Vesalius Revised. His Annotations to the 1555 Fabrica1

2012 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivian Nutton
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Andreas Vesalius

AbstractThe De humani corporis fabrica [The Fabric of the Human Body], Basle, 1543, of Andreas Vesalius is deservedly famous as the first modern book of anatomy. A second edition was published in Basle in 1555, but little is known of Vesalius’ activities after that date. This article discusses a recent find: Vesalius’ own copy of the 1555 edition, heavily annotated in preparation for a never published third edition. Vesalius made hundreds of changes to the second edition, the great majority being stylistic, altering the Latin words but not the overall meaning. There are also changes to the plates to give greater clarity or to correct mistakes by the original block-cutter. There is little new anatomical material, although Vesalius continued to meditate about what he had earlier discovered. He shows no sign of being acquainted with the findings of others, like Colombo or Falloppia, that were published after he had moved his residence from Brussels to Spain in summer 1559, perhaps leaving this volume behind. The number of annotations shows Vesalius’ passionate concern not only for accuracy but also for the most effective way of proclaiming his new anatomical message.

scholarly journals Andreas Vesalius as a renaissance innovative neuroanatomist: his 5th centenary of birth

2015 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marleide da Mota Gomes ◽  
Mauricio Moscovici ◽  
Eliasz Engelhardt
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Scientific Advance ◽  
Aesthetic Appeal ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Andreas Vesalius ◽  
European Renaissance

Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) is considered the Father of Modern Anatomy, and an authentic representative of the Renaissance. His studies, founded on dissection of human bodies, differed from Galeno, who based his work on dissection of animals, constituted a notable scientific advance. Putting together science and art, Vesalius associated himself to artists of the Renaissance, and valued the images of the human body in his superb work De Humani Corporis Fabrica.This paper aims to honor this extraordinary European Renaissance physician and anatomist, who used aesthetic appeal to bind text and illustration, science and art. His achievements are highlighted, with an especial attention on neuroanatomy. Aspects about his personal life and career are also focused.

scholarly journals Sachiko Kusukawa. Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xvii, 331p. (ISBN 9780226465296).

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-77
Author(s):  
Glenn Harcourt
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Human Anatomy ◽  
Scientific Publishing ◽  
Illustrated Books ◽  
Medical Botany ◽  
Book Of Nature ◽  
Andreas Vesalius ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

The early 1540s saw the publication of several printed and illustrated books that are properly identified as masterpieces of scientific publishing, including, in 1542, Leonhart Fuchs’s De historia stirpium (On the history of plants); and, in 1543, the De humani corporis fabrica libri VII (Seven books on the fabric of the human body) by the Paduan professor Andreas Vesalius. Now, Sachiko Kusukawa, a Fellow in History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge, has produced a masterful study of Fuchs and Vesalius that advances a powerful argument about the strategies developed by the two authors, working apparently on two very different . . .

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