Item Number: 147287 Title: The Fabrica of ANDREAS VESALIUS : A Worldwide Descriptive Census, Ownership, and Annotations of the 1543 and 1555 Editions Author: Margocsy, Daniel ; Stephen N. Joffe Price: Not Available ISBN: 9789004336292 Description: Leiden: Brill, 2018. 25cm., hardcover, 518pp., 132 illus. Summary: 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.
(Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science, 28)
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