Emeritus Profs. Dan Garrison and Malcolm Hast recently completed translating and annotating the most significant Renaissance work in the realm of medicine and anatomy from its original Latin into ...
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A rare second edition of a classic textbook on the human form by the Renaissance anatomist Andreas Vesalius recently soared past its $1.2 million high estimate to sell for $2.2 million in an online ...
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 ...
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 ...
Explore how Andreas Vesalius transformed modern anatomy by challenging old beliefs about the human body with original anatomical guide drawings. Carl: A skeleton gazes at a skull, its hand draped ...
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 ...
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 ...