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Picturing the book of nature : image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany / Sachiko Kusukawa.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Reference Collection QH46.5 .K87 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kusukawa, Sachiko.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history illustration--Europe--History--16th century.
- Natural history illustration.
- Botanical illustration--Europe--History--16th century.
- Botanical illustration.
- Medical illustration--History--16th century.
- Medical illustration.
- Illustrated books--Europe--History--16th century.
- Illustrated books.
- Art and science--History--16th century.
- Art and science.
- History.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 331 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Printing pictures. Techniques and craftsmen ; Publishers' calculations ; Copying and coloring ; Control
- pt. 2. 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
- pt. 3. 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-324) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226465296
- 0226465292
- OCLC:
- 711050907
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