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Andreae Vesalii de humani corporis fabrica libri septem. [With plates.] MS. notes

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  • "De humani corporis fabrica"
  • "Andreae Vesalii Brvxellensis, scholiae medicorum Patavinae professoris"
  • "Andreae Vesalii Brvxellensis, scholae medicorum"
  • "Andreas Vesalius and his opus magnum"
  • "De Humani corporis fabrica"
  • "Scholae medicorum Patavinae professoris De humani corporis fabrica libri septem"
  • "Andreae Vesalii Brvxellensis, scholae medicorum Patauinae professoris, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem"
  • "De humani corporis fabrica libri VII"
  • "Andreae Vesalii Brvxellensis, scholae medicorum Patauinae professoris, de Humani corporis fabrica Libri septem"
  • "Anreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, scholae medicorum Patavinae professoris, de humani corporis fabrica libri septem"
  • "Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, scholae medicorum patauinæ professoris"
  • "De humani corporis fabrica libri septem"
  • "Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, scholae medicorum Patauinae professoris, de Humani corporis fabrica libri septem"
  • "Fabrica"
  • "Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis scholae medicorum Patauinae professoris, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem"
  • "De fabrica"

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  • "The Fabrica also broke new ground in its unprecendented blending of scientific exposition, art and typography. Although earlier anatomical books, such as those by Berengario da Carpi, had contained some notable anatomical illustrations, anatomical illustrations had never appeared in such number or been executed in such minute precision as in the Fabrica, and they had usually been introduced rather haphazardly with little or no relationship to the text. In contrast, Vesalius sent his woodblocks to the printer with precise instructions as to placement within the text, and with exact marginal references which brought about direct relationship of text to illustrations, or even details within illustrations. The series of historiated initials, in which putti and dwarfed men humorously perform some of the more grisly actions associated with dissection, have been called pictorial footnotes to the text. The book remains the typographic masterpiece of Johannes Oporinus of Basel, one of the most widely learned and iconoclastic of the so-called "scholar-printers," whose success with this book apparently caused Vesalius to entrust to Oporinus all of his later publications."
  • "With De humani corporis fabrica, published when he was only twenty-nine years old, Vesalius revolutionized not only the science of anatomy but how it was taught. Throughout this encyclopedic work on the structure and workings of the human body, Vesalius provided a fuller and more detailed description of human anatomy than any of his predecessors, correcting errors in the traditional anatomical teachings of Galen (which had been obtained from primate rather than human dissection), and arguing that knowledge of human anatomy was to be obtained only from human sources. Even more revolutionary than his criticism of Galen and other medieval authorities was Vesalius's assertion that the dissection of cadavers must be performed by the physician himself-- a direct contradiction of the medieval doctrine that dissection was a task to be performed by menials while the physician lectured from the traditional authorities. Only through actual dissection, Vesalius argued, could the physician learn human anatomy in sufficient detail to be able to teach it accurately. This "hands-on" principle remained Vesalius's most lasting contribution to the teaching of anatomy; it is graphically represented in the Fabrica's woodcut title page (the earliest illustration of an anatomical theatre), which shows Vesalius with his right hand plunged into an opened cadaver, conducting an anatomical demonstration. Because it was then legal only to dissect the cadavers of executed criminals, and these cadavers were always in short supply, Vesalius urged physicians to take their own initiative in obtaining material for dissection. The Fabrica contains several amusing and unrepentant anecdotes of how students had robbed graves to obtain cadavers, especially those of women, since female criminals were rarely executed in those days."
  • "The Lane Library copy of the Fabrica is bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over oak boards. The woodcut title page is a facsimile, signed on the verso by the historian of medicine and bibliographer, Karl Sudhoff. According to a note by Sudhoff on the rear pastedown another leaf may also be missing.--J. Norman, 2006."
  • "The Fabrica's magnificent title page and the spectacular series of more than two hundred anatomical woodcuts (full-page and smaller) spread throughout the book remain the most famous series of anatomical illustrations ever published. Because Vesalius published no clues as to their authorship, and no manuscripts, archives, or demonstrably authentic original drawings for the work exist, the source of the woodcuts has always excited the curiosity and speculation of art historians, historians of medicine, and bibliographers. A contemporary reference in Vasari's Lives of the Painter's is probably the source of the traditional attribution the woodcuts to a Flemish associate of Titian, Jan Stephen van Calcar (ca. 1499-1546/50) who drew and possibly engraved the three woodcuts of skeletons in Vesalius's first series of anatomical charts, Tabulae anatomicae sex (1538). Calcar is the only named artist definitely known to have worked with Vesalius. Nevertheless there is no reliable basis for attributing the illustration in the Fabrica to him or any other particular artist. Since we lack any evidence about them other than their style and the understanding that they were cut in Venice, the Fabrica woodcuts may be attributed to an unknown artist or artists from the school of Titian. Vesalius commissioned the illustrations and supervised their production. It is also quite possible that he personally drew some of the lesser illustrations for the Fabrica, as we know that he made the drawings for the first three of the Tabulae anatomicae sex. The woodblocks for the Fabrica, preserved in Munich until their destruction in World War II, were most certainly cut in Venice."

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