The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius

A Worldwide Descriptive Census, Ownership, and Annotations of the 1543 and 1555 Editions

von Mark Somos, Dániel Margócsy, Stephen N Joffe

518 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Winner of the Third Neu-Whitrow Prize (2021) granted by the Commission on Bibliography and Documentation of IUHPS-DHSTAdditional background information This book provides bibliographic information, ownership records, a detailed worldwide census and a description of the handwritten annotations for all the surviving copies of the 1543 and 1555 editions of Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica. It also offers a groundbreaking historical analysis of how the Fabrica traveled across the globe, and how readers studied, annotated and critiqued its contents from 1543 to 2017. The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius sheds a fresh light on the book's vibrant reception history and documents how physicians, artists, theologians and collectors filled its pages with copious annotations. It also offers a novel interpretation of how an early anatomical textbook became one of the most coveted rare books for collectors in the 21st century.

• Themen: Medizin Medizin / Gesundheitswesen, allgemein Geschichte der Medizin
• ISBN: 9789004336292
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.06.2018
• Größe: 294 x 227 mm
• Verlag: Brill