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image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany

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Picturing the book of nature

image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany

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University of Chicago Press
Language
English
Pages
331

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Subjects

Natural history illustration, Art and science, Illustrated books, Botanical illustration, Medical illustration, History, Europe, history, Artistic Anatomy, Herbal Medicine, History, 16th Century, Medicinal Plants

Places

Europe

Times

16th century

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Cover of: Picturing the Book of Nature
Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany
2012, University of Chicago Press
in English
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Cover of: Picturing the Book of Nature
Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany
2012, University of Chicago Press
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Picturing the book of nature
Picturing the book of nature: image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany
2011, University of Chicago Press
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Chicago, London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
508.022/2
Library of Congress
QH46.5 .K87 2011, QH46.5.K87 2011, QH46.5 .K87 2012

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
331

ID Numbers

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OL24853386M
ISBN 10
0226465292
ISBN 13
9780226465296
LCCN
2011018307
OCLC/WorldCat
802319486, 711050907

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