The Anatomists' library : the books that unlocked the secrets of the human body / Colin Salter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salter, Colin, 1949- author.

Series:

Liber Historica Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anatomy--History.

Anatomy.

Medical literature--History and criticism.

Medical literature.

Social--History.

Social.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (422 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Quarto Publishing plc, [2023]

Summary:

The Anatomist's Library is a lavishly illustrated compendium of the anatomical publications that have informed medicine over six centuries.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Contents

Introduction

1 Anatomy in the Ancient World (3000 BCE–1300 CE)

1 Ancient Egypt

2 Ancient Greece

3 The Hippocratic Corpus

4 Pneuma, pulse and Praxagoras

5 Herophilos, Erasistratus and Alexandria

6 Galen

7 Decline and Fall of the Western Empire

8 Move to the East

9 Rhazes

10 Avicenna

11 Ibn al-Nafis

12 Return to Western Europe

13 Frederick II

2 Medieval Anatomy (1301–1500)

1 Mondino de Luzzi

2 Guido da Vigevano

3 Mansur ibn Ilyas

4 Supply and demand

5 Alessandro Achillini

6 Antonio Benivieni

7 Johannes de Ketham

8 Hieronymus Brunschwig

9 Magnus Hundt

10 Gregor Reisch

3 Anatomy in the Renaissance (1501–1600) Generated by AI.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780711280762

0711280762

OCLC:

1380464541