De humani corporis fabrica by Andreas Vesalius

Description

58 illustrated pages from the first edition (Basel, 1543) of Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body), the book that founded modern anatomy. Vesalius corrected Galen by dissecting human bodies himself, and the woodcuts that accompany his text are among the greatest anatomical images ever made. This edition reproduces the pages where the large figures appear: the title page and portrait, the skull and the three skeletons, the fourteen "muscle men", the veins, arteries and nerves, the organs of the torso and the brain. Each page is shown whole, with its engraved Latin headings and legends. The rest of the book (the Latin text and the small woodcuts within it) is not included.