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Picturing the book of nature : image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany / Sachiko Kusukawa.
Publication details: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.Description: xvii, 331 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 27 cmISBN:- 9780226465296 :
- 0226465292 :
- QH46.5 .K87 2011
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.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | QH 46.5 .K87 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5107608 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-324) and index.
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.
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