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On the Fabric of the Human Body, Book 2: The Ligaments and Muscles Hardcover - 1999 - 1st Edition
by Andreas Vesalius
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- Title On the Fabric of the Human Body, Book 2: The Ligaments and Muscles
- Author Andreas Vesalius
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 490
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Norman Pub., San Francisco
- Date 1999-06
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780930405755 / 0930405757
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98034677
- Dewey Decimal Code 611.73
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Ligaments and Muscles,The: Book II
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On the Fabric of the Human Body. Vol. 2: Ligaments & muscles. Translated by William F. Richardson and John B. Carman
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San Francisco: Norman, 1999. 1st edition. Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, first published in 1543 is, along with William Harvey's classic work from 1628 on the discovery of the circulation of the blood, one of the two most famous books in the history of medicine. A cornerstone of the scientific revolution, published the same year as Copernicus's monumental treatise on the heliocentric universe, De humani corporis fabrica inaugurated the modern study of anatomy, leading to the eventual overturn of the Galenic system that had dominated medical science for fourteen centuries. Illustrated with woodcuts by artists in the school of Titian that have for centuries remained standard icons of medical literature, Vesalius's work is also a classic of sixteenth-century graphic art. When it was originally published in the mid-sixteenth century its Latin text guaranteed its accessibility to an international medical and scientific audience, all of whom had been educated to read and write Latin.…
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