Del 36 - Renaissance Lives

Andreas Vesalius

Anatomy and the World of Books

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Sachiko Kusukawa

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In 1543 the young and ambitious physician Andreas Vesalius published what became the most famous book in the history of medicine, On the Fabric of the Human Body. While we tend to think of dissection as a form of destroying the body, Vesalius believed that it helped establish how the human body was constructed. Sachiko Kusukawa shows how Vesalius’s book presented this view through innovative use of Renaissance art, printing technology and the classical tradition. She replaces the conventional view of Vesalius as a proto-modern, anti-authoritarian father of anatomy with a more nuanced account of how Vesalius exploited cultural and technological developments to create an astounding, beautiful book that propelled him to the post of imperial physician and secured his enduring fame.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-05-13
Mått138 x 216 x 27 mm
Vikt604 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRenaissance Lives
Antal sidor272
FörlagReaktion Books
ISBN9781789148527

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[A] rich, pluralistic intellectual world is exquisitely evoked by Sachiko Kusukawa in her marvellous new book on Vesalius and the Fabrica. Before turning to the man himself, she guides us through the practices of his immediate predecessors . . . The greatest strength of Kusukawa’s book is its meticulous description of the design, composition and preparation of the Fabrica . . . Reaktion has done a wonderful job here, as with other works in its Renaissance Lives series. The illustrations (many in colour) are crisp, and the book is bound with thread rather than glue. Many larger publishers could learn from them.