Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius (eBook)

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

Stephen N. Joffe, Daniel Margocsy, Mark Somos (Autoren)

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2018
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-33630-8 (ISBN)

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Winner of the Third Neu-Whitrow Prize (2021) granted by the Commission on Bibliography and Documentation of IUHPS-DHST Additional 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.5.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 90-04-33630-3 / 9004336303
• ISBN-13: 978-90-04-33630-8 / 9789004336308