07 October 2013 S. Karger AG
An Annotated Translation of the 1543 and 1555 Editions of “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” by Daniel H. Garrison and Malcolm Hast with contributions by Vivian Nutton and Nancy Siraisi
For the first time ever, both editions of Andreas Vesalius’ (1514 - 1564) masterpiece “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” are accessible in the English language. They were critically compared and published in a modern layout transforming the Renaissance anatomical atlas for the 21st-century reader. More than 5,000 annotations cover anything from antique sources over Galenic references to the medical and cultural background of Vesalius’ time.
To enable the reader and medical student to really study Vesalius’ woodcut illustrations, the images were digitally enhanced and often enlarged to feature his painstaking work of marking each pertinent anatomical part with characters. All over Vesalius’ descriptive text, the standard Latin Nomina Anatomica and Terminologia Anatomica provide the reader with the modern medical terminology
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