Philadelphia’s College of Physicians is home to tens of thousands of books on medicine spanning centuries of health and science. This week, the group will bring out one of its most prized volumes, a ...

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A new book on Andreas Vesalius humanizes the 16th-century scientist by focusing on his creative approaches and small frustrations. This exhibition focuses on the Netherlandish painter Catharina van ...

Cambridge University Library, external holds well-preserved copies of the Fabrica, and its companion piece the Epitome - publications that helped Vesalius realise his personal ambitions in the 16th ...

Dániel Margócsy is university lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is co-author of The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius (2018). Mark Somos ...

In 2007 a retired Canadian doctor paid €13,200 (US$14,256) for a well-used second edition of Andreas Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica (1555), one of the most influential books in history. Only 150 ...

Den 15. Oktober hat die Internationale Vereinigung Anatomischer Gesellschaften (International Federation of the Associations of Anatomists, IFAA) kürzlich dazu bestimmt, alljährlich nicht nur des ...

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Cambridge University Library holds well-preserved copies of the Fabrica, and its companion piece the Epitome - publications that helped Vesalius realise his personal ambitions in the 16th Century ...