Picturing the book of nature : image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kusukawa, Sachiko (Author)
Document Type: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago [u.a.] : University of Chicago Press , 2012
Subjects:
Fuchs, Leonhart / De historia stirpium commentarii insignes
Vesalius, Andreas / De humani corporis fabrica
Deutschland
Schweiz
Medizin
Illustriertes Buch
Anatomie
Pflanzendarstellung
Botanik
Illustration
Gessner, Conrad / Historia plantarum et vires ex Dioscoride, Paulo Aegineta, Theophrasto, Plinio, et recentioribus Graecis, iuxta elementorum ordinem
Geschichte
Pflanzenbuch
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Author Notes:Sachiko Kusukawa
Table of Contents:
  • Printing pictures
  • Techniques and craftsmen
  • Publishers' calculations
  • Copying and coloring
  • Control
  • Picturing medicinal plants
  • Accidents and arguments: Fuchs's De historia stirpium
  • Arguments over pictures: reactions to Fuchs's De historia stirpium
  • Gessner and the making of the Historia plantarum
  • The authority of pictures: Gessner, Mattioli, and Jamnitzer
  • Picturing human anatomy
  • Vesalius and the bloodletting controversy
  • The canon of the human body: Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica
  • Text, image, body, and the book.
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-324) and index

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