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Andreas Vesalius: Anatomy and the World of Books (Renaissance Lives)

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A revisionist biography of Andreas Vesalius—the father of modern anatomy—as deeply shaped by Renaissance culture.   In 1543 the young and ambitious physician Andreas Vesalius published one of the most famous books in the history of medicine, On the Fabric of the Human Body. While we often think of dissection as destroying the body, Vesalius believed that it helped him understand how to construct the human body. In this book, Sachiko Kusukawa shows how Vesalius’s publication emerged from the interplay of Renaissance art, printing technology, and classical tradition. She challenges the conventional view of Vesalius as a proto-modern, anti-authoritarian father of anatomy through a more nuanced account of how Vesalius exploited cultural and technological developments to create a big and beautiful book that propelled him into imperial circles and secured his enduring fame.
Request Code : ZLIBIO4350119
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Year:
2024
Publisher:
Reaktion Books
Language:
English
Pages:
224
ISBN 10:
1789148529
ISBN 13:
9781789148527
ISBN:
1789148529,9781789148527

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