Anatomia in qua tota humani corporis fabrica... Amstelodami, Ioannes Ianssonius, 1617

A paper affixed to the rear free endpaper of the item states that is edition contains “fine reproductions of the Gemini plates.” “Thomas Geminus was a a pseudonym for Thomas Lambrit, an engraver and printer…shown as active from about 1540; he died in May 1562.” http://www.arsanatomica.lib.ed.ac.uk/geminus.html accessed 11/20/2012. Geminus (Lambrit) printed Compendiosa totius anatomiae delineation aere exarata in 1545 copied from Vesalius’ 1543, De humani corporis fabrica . (Wellcome Library catalog, accessed 11/20/2012.) This book is a 1617 reproduction of the engraved copperplates which Lambrit himself copied from the original woodblock prints of the Vesalius’ book. Because the illustrations were based on those in the Vesalius’ book, because the name Vesalius helped sell the book, because copyright laws were not in effect, and because photocopies and digital images were not available, the author of this book is given as Andreas Vesalius. (Vesalius may or may not have been pleased.) For more information on Thomas Geminus (Lambrit) see The Anatomy of Thomas Geminus, by Geoffrey Keynes, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2413790/?page=1https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/anatomicaltexts/1000/thumbnail.jp

Vesalius: The China Root Epistle

This book provides the first annotated English translation from the original Latin of Andreas Vesalius&amp;apos; China Root Epistle. Ostensibly his appraisal of a fashionable herbal remedy, the China Root Epistle concentrates on Vesalius&amp;apos; skeptical appraisal of traditional Galenic anatomy, which was based on animal rather than human dissections. Along with reflections about his life as a young anatomist, Vesalius argued that the new science of anatomy should devote itself less to rhetorical polemics and more to the craft of direct observation based on human dissection. This volume provides annotations to link the Epistle with Vesalius&amp;apos; earlier and more famous work, On the Fabric of the Human Body, and includes illustrations from the famous woodcuts first used in the 1543 edition of the Fabrica.</jats:p

Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, ... De humani corporis fabrica libri septem

Basileae : per Ioannem Oporinum (Basileae : per Ioannem Oporinum, 1555 mense Augusto

[6]: Skeleton a tergo delineatum.

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[6. variante]: Skeleton a tergo delineatum.

Esemplare: Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana 228.d.1, c.16 Su concessione del Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana. Divieto di riproduzione. 1 foglio : xilografia ; 500 x 370 mm. Tavola 6 nella variante di stato senza colophon e Maiestatis. catalogo in linea: http://polovea.sebina.it/SebinaOpac/.do?idopac=VEA240593