Picturing the book of nature [electronic resource] : image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany / Sachiko Kusukawa.
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Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
2011.
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Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
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.