De Humani Corporis Fabrica

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De Humani Corporis Fabrica

By Andreas Vesalius, Ian Jackson,

Publisher:   Octavo
Number Of Pages:   363
Publication Date:   1998-08-03
Sales Rank:   870461
ISBN / ASIN:   1891788108
EAN:   9781891788109
Binding:   CD-ROM
Manufacturer:   Octavo
Studio:   Octavo

Book Description:

Andreas Vesalius' De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the fabric of the human body) is arguably the best-known book produced in the history of Western medicine. Published in 1543, at the height of the Renaissance, it is an exhaustive visual atlas and verbal description of human anatomy based in part on the author's own dissections; its massive Latin text of over 700 folio pages contains extensive descriptions of the tools and techniques of dissection, as well as of the structures of the human body those tools and techniques reveal. The whole is illustrated by a remarkable series of woodcuts from the circle of Titian. A book of great freeduan.com intellectual complexity and physical beauty, it was also a work of daring, reflecting Vesalius' youthful ambition¡ªhe was only twenty-eight when he completed it¡ªand his desire to use the new technology of printing and most progressive artistic conventions of the period to push the edges not only of contemporary anatomical knowledge but also of contemporary attitudes toward the human body.

To a modern reader, the most striking and original aspect of the Fabrica is its heavy reliance on images. They were based on meticulous observation of dissected cadavers, and Vesalius married them clearly to his text, using an elaborate system of captions, cross references, and marginal annotations, which made them an integral part of his presentation. Furthermore, the illustrations were works of art in their own right; even the simplest far exceeded all previous anatomical images in clarity and detail (with the exception of some of the unpublished anatomical drawings of Leonardo da Vinci), and the more elaborate were extraordinary for their beauty and the imaginativeness of their conception.

Commentary by Katharine Park, essay on historiated initials.

Vesalius, Andreas. De corporis humani fabrica - Basel, 1543 | PDF | 363 pages | 92,3 MB

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