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Picturing the Book of Nature : Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany
Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part 1. Printing Pictures; 1. Techniques and Craftsmen; 2. Publishers' Calculations; 3. Copying and Coloring; 4. Control; Part 2. Picturing Medicinal Plants; 5. Accidents and Arguments: Fuchs's De Historia Stirpium; 6. Argumen...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago
: University of Chicago Press
, 2012
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| Edition: | Online-Ausg. |
| Series: | EBL-Schweitzer
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| Online Access: | Volltext |
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[Rezension von: Kusukawa, Sachiko, Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany] |
| Summary: | Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part 1. Printing Pictures; 1. Techniques and Craftsmen; 2. Publishers' Calculations; 3. Copying and Coloring; 4. Control; Part 2. Picturing Medicinal Plants; 5. Accidents and Arguments: Fuchs's De Historia Stirpium; 6. Arguments over Pictures: Reactions to Fuchs's De Historia Stirpium; 7. Gessner and the Making of the Historia Plantarum; 8. The Authority of Pictures: Gessner, Mattioli, and Jamnitzer; Part 3. Picturing Human Anatomy; 9. Vesalius and the Bloodletting Controversy 10. The Canon of the Human Body: Vesalius's De Humani Corporis Fabrica11 Text, Image, Body, and the Book; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index Because of their spectacular, naturalistic pictures of plants and the human body, Leonhart Fuchs's De historia stirpium and Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica are landmark publications in the history of the printed book. But as Picturing the Book of Nature makes clear, they do more than bear witness to the development of book publishing during the Renaissance and to the prominence attained by the fields of medical botany and anatomy in European medicine. Sachiko Kusukawa examines these texts, as well as Conrad Gessner's unpublished Historia plantarum, and demonstrates how their illu |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (1 online resource (350 p.)) |
| ISBN: | 9780226465289 |
