Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 282

ANDREAS VESALIUS (1514-1564) La structure du corps humain. J. Enschede 1924] 40 pp., illus. 40.2 cm.

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In the early 1920s the Dutch Society of Sciences at Haarlem and the Medical and Surgical Section of the Society of Natural Sciences at Amsterdam asked Jules Émile Verschaffelt (1870-1955), a physicist from the University of Ghent, to translate the 1555 edition of the Fabrica into French. It would have been the first time that the Fabrica had appeared in a language other than Latin. The first six chapters of the first book were translated and printed at a cost of just under $2,000. The cost of completing the entire book was such that the project was then abandoned.

Cited references: Cushing V82; Cushing Vesalius VI.A.-6

Gift of John Martin, M.D.