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Andreas Vesalius

Andreas Vesalius
Anatomy and the World of Books

  • ISBN: 9781789148527
  • Editorial: Reaktion Books Ltd.
  • Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
  • Encuadernación: Cartoné
  • Medidas: 22 cm
  • Nº Pág.: 224
  • Idiomas: Inglés

Papel: Cartoné
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Resumen

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.

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