Andreas Vesalius: anatomy and the world of books

A new perspective on the innovative Renaissance anatomist and physician Andreas Vesalius. In 1543 the young and ambitious physician Andreas Vesalius published what became the most famous book in the history of medicine, On the Fabric of the Human Body. While we tend to think of dissection as a form...

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1. Verfasser: Kusukawa, Sachiko (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Reaktion Books 2024
Ausgabe:first published
Schriftenreihe:Renaissance lives
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Zusammenfassung:A new perspective on the innovative Renaissance anatomist and physician Andreas Vesalius. In 1543 the young and ambitious physician Andreas Vesalius published what became the most famous book in the history of medicine, On the Fabric of the Human Body. While we tend to think of dissection as a form of destroying the body, Vesalius believed that it helped establish how the human body was constructed. Sachiko Kusukawa shows how Vesalius’s book presented this view through innovative use of Renaissance art, printing technology and the classical tradition. She replaces the conventional view of Vesalius as a proto-modern, anti-authoritarian father of anatomy with a more nuanced account of how Vesalius exploited cultural and technological developments to create an astounding, beautiful book that propelled him to the post of imperial physician and secured his enduring fame
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-269) and index
Beschreibung:269 Seiten 75 Illustrationen
ISBN:9781789148527
1789148774

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