Andreas Vesalius – Anatomy and the World of Books : Anatomy and the World of Books
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Renaissance Lives
ISBN-10
1789148529
ISBN-13
9781789148527
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Imprint
Reaktion Books
Country of Manufacture
IN
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 13th, 2024
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
604 grams
Dimensions
14.60 x 22.30 x 2.70 cms
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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.
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