Format:
xvii, 331 p.
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zahlr. Ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0226465292
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9780226465289
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9780226465296
Content:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-324) and index
Content:
&P&&DIV&Because of their spectacular, naturalistic pictures of plants and the human body, Leonhart Fuchs’s &i&De historia stirpium&/i& and Andreas Vesalius’s &i&De humani corporis fabrica&/i& are landmark publications in the history of the printed book. But as &i&Picturing the Book of Nature&/i& makes clear, they do more than bear witness to the development of book publishing during the Renaissance and to the prominence attained by the fields of medical botany and anatomy in European medicine. Sachiko Kusukawa examines these texts, as well as Conrad Gessner’s unpublished &i&H
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part 1. Printing Pictures; 1. Techniques and Craftsmen; 2. Publishers' Calculations; 3. Copying and Coloring; 4. Control; Part 2. Picturing Medicinal Plants; 5. Accidents and Arguments: Fuchs's De Historia Stirpium; 6. Arguments over Pictures: Reactions to Fuchs's De Historia Stirpium; 7. Gessner and the Making of the Historia Plantarum; 8. The Authority of Pictures: Gessner, Mattioli, and Jamnitzer; Part 3. Picturing Human Anatomy; 9. Vesalius and the Bloodletting Controversy
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10. The Canon of the Human Body: Vesalius's De Humani Corporis Fabrica11 Text, Image, Body, and the Book; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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Additional Edition:
Print version Picturing the Book of Nature : Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Fuchs, Leonhart 1501-1566 De historia stirpium commentarii insignes
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Vesalius, Andreas 1514-1564 De humani corporis fabrica
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Gessner, Conrad 1516-1565 Historia plantarum et vires ex Dioscoride, Paulo Aegineta, Theophrasto, Plinio, et recentioribus Graecis, iuxta elementorum ordinem
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