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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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Main Author: Kusukawa, Sachiko (Author)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2012
Edition:Online-Ausg.
Series:EBL-Schweitzer
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Online Access:Volltext
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