Picturing the book of nature
Subtitle: image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany
By: Sachiko Kusukawa
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780226465296
Subjects: Natural history illustration; Medical illustration; Art and science; History; Illustrated books; Botanical illustration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Printing pictures; title: Techniques and craftsmen; title: Publishers' calculations; title: Copying and coloring; title: Control; title: Picturing medicinal plants; title: Accidents and arguments: Fuchs's De historia stirpium; title: Arguments over pictures: reactions to Fuchs's De historia stirpium; title: Gessner and the making of the Historia plantarum; title: The authority of pictures: Gessner, Mattioli, and Jamnitzer; title: Picturing human anatomy; title: Vesalius and the bloodletting controversy; title: The canon of the human body: Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica; title: Text, image, body, and the book.