Picturing the book of nature : image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany / Sachiko Kusukawa.
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TextPublisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2012]Description: 1 online resource (350 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780226465289
- 0226465284
- Image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany
- Natural history illustration -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
- Botanical illustration -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
- Medical illustration -- History -- 16th century
- Illustrated books -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
- Art and science -- History -- 16th century
- Illustration en sciences naturelles -- Europe -- Histoire -- 16e siècle
- Illustration botanique -- Europe -- Histoire -- 16e siècle
- Illustration médicale -- Histoire -- 16e siècle
- Livres illustrés -- Europe -- Histoire -- 16e siècle
- Art et sciences -- Histoire -- 16e siècle
- NATURE -- Essays
- NATURE -- Reference
- TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Ecotourism
- Art and science
- Botanical illustration
- Illustrated books
- Medical illustration
- Natural history illustration
- Europe
- 1500-1599
- 508.022/2 508.0222
- QH46.5 .K87 2012
- AN 35200
- Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Award of Excellence in History, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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.
Because of their naturalistic pictures of plants and the human body, Leonhart Fuchs's 'De Historia Stirpium' and Andreas Vesalius's 'De Humani Corporis Fabrica' are landmark publications in the history of the printed book. Kusukawa examines these texts.
Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Award of Excellence in History, 2014
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