Andreas Vesalius: Anatomy and the World of Books by Kusukawa, Sachiko
Andreas Vesalius: Anatomy and the World of Books by Kusukawa, Sachiko

Andreas Vesalius: Anatomy and the World of Books

A revisionist biography of Andreas Vesalius--the father of modern anatomy--as deeply shaped by Renaissance culture. In 1543...
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Author: Sachiko Kusukawa
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Language: English
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Andreas Vesalius: Anatomy and the World of Books by Kusukawa, Sachiko

Andreas Vesalius: Anatomy and the World of Books

$296.82
Andreas Vesalius: Anatomy and the World of Books by Kusukawa, Sachiko

Andreas Vesalius: Anatomy and the World of Books

$296.82
Author: Sachiko Kusukawa
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A revisionist biography of Andreas Vesalius--the father of modern anatomy--as deeply shaped by Renaissance culture.

In 1543 the young and ambitious physician Andreas Vesalius published one of the most famous books in the history of medicine, On the Fabric of the Human Body. While we often think of dissection as destroying the body, Vesalius believed that it helped him understand how to construct the human body. In this book, Sachiko Kusukawa shows how Vesalius's publication emerged from the interplay of Renaissance art, printing technology, and classical tradition. She challenges the conventional view of Vesalius as a proto-modern, anti-authoritarian father of anatomy through a more nuanced account of how Vesalius exploited cultural and technological developments to create a big and beautiful book that propelled him into imperial circles and secured his enduring fame.

Author: Sachiko Kusukawa
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 07/30/2024
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.70w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781789148527

About the Author
Sachiko Kusukawa is professor of the history of science at the University of Cambridge. Her books include Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany, which won the Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society.
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