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Winner of the Third Neu-Whitrow Prize (2021) granted by the Commission on Bibliography and Documentation of IUHPS-DHST
Additional background information
This book provides bibliographic information, ownership records, a detailed worldwide census and a description of the handwritten annotations for all the surviving copies of the 1543 and 1555 editions of Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica. It also offers a groundbreaking historical analysis of how the Fabrica traveled across the globe, and how readers studied, annotated and critiqued its contents from 1543 to 2017. The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius sheds a fresh light on the book’s vibrant reception history and documents how physicians, artists, theologians and collectors filled its pages with copious annotations. It also offers a novel interpretation of how an early anatomical textbook became one of the most coveted rare books for collectors in the 21st century.
Additional background information
This book provides bibliographic information, ownership records, a detailed worldwide census and a description of the handwritten annotations for all the surviving copies of the 1543 and 1555 editions of Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica. It also offers a groundbreaking historical analysis of how the Fabrica traveled across the globe, and how readers studied, annotated and critiqued its contents from 1543 to 2017. The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius sheds a fresh light on the book’s vibrant reception history and documents how physicians, artists, theologians and collectors filled its pages with copious annotations. It also offers a novel interpretation of how an early anatomical textbook became one of the most coveted rare books for collectors in the 21st century.
Price: $222.00
Pages: 518
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science
Publication Date:
28 June 2018
ISBN: 9789004336292
Format: Hardcover
"[...] this is a meticulously researched, engagingly written, and richly illustrated book that should appeal to historians of medicine as well as historians of the book."
- Kathleen Crowther (University of Oklahoma), Bull. Hist. Med., 2020, 94:294-295
"[...] it really should be on any shelves aiming to support study in the history of books, libraries, medicine, or art."
- David Pearson, University of London, in: Library & Information History, 35/2 (2019), pp 120-122
"[...] readers can see how the first great modern anatomical book becomes, across the centuries, a rare book for collectors, while maintaining valuable content for physicians and surgeons, historians of medicine and artists."
- Jacqueline Vons, in: Metascience [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-019-00464-4]
"This book is a high-quality publication, plentifully supplied with colour plates, graphs and maps to illustrate the authors’ findings. It is a very readable text and will be an invaluable resource for any Vesalius scholar. It will also have a broader appeal however, for anyone interested in how early modern books travel through time and space, or how early modern readers interacted with their texts."
- Richard W. Tait, Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Australia, in: Endeavour, 10 December 2018
- Kathleen Crowther (University of Oklahoma), Bull. Hist. Med., 2020, 94:294-295
"[...] it really should be on any shelves aiming to support study in the history of books, libraries, medicine, or art."
- David Pearson, University of London, in: Library & Information History, 35/2 (2019), pp 120-122
"[...] readers can see how the first great modern anatomical book becomes, across the centuries, a rare book for collectors, while maintaining valuable content for physicians and surgeons, historians of medicine and artists."
- Jacqueline Vons, in: Metascience [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-019-00464-4]
"This book is a high-quality publication, plentifully supplied with colour plates, graphs and maps to illustrate the authors’ findings. It is a very readable text and will be an invaluable resource for any Vesalius scholar. It will also have a broader appeal however, for anyone interested in how early modern books travel through time and space, or how early modern readers interacted with their texts."
- Richard W. Tait, Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Australia, in: Endeavour, 10 December 2018
Dániel Margócsy, (PhD Harvard, 2009), is University Lecturer at the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He is author of Commercial Visions: Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014).
Mark Somos (PhD Harvard, 2007; PhD Lugd. Bat., 2014) is Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg), Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Sussex Law School, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Grotiana.
Stephen N. Joffe, MBBCh (1967), MD (1976), was Professor of Surgery at University of Cincinnati. He has published multiple articles and textbooks on lasers in medicine and early anatomists.
Mark Somos (PhD Harvard, 2007; PhD Lugd. Bat., 2014) is Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg), Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Sussex Law School, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Grotiana.
Stephen N. Joffe, MBBCh (1967), MD (1976), was Professor of Surgery at University of Cincinnati. He has published multiple articles and textbooks on lasers in medicine and early anatomists.