Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 284

ANDREAS VESALIUS (1514-1564) De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Apud Franciscum Franciscium Senensem, & Joannem Criegher 1568 [3rd folio ed.]. [12] 510 [45] pp., illus. 31.8 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 280

This posthumous edition of the Fabrica, printed without license by Senense in Venice, is set up much like the 1555 edition, but the woodcuts, redrawn by the artist Johann Criegher (or Krüger), are slightly reduced copies of the originals, and entirely new capital initials were used in this edition. The fact that publishers for many years found it profitable to put out new editions of Vesalius' work indicates that the solid truths set forth in the 1543 edition were quickly accepted by all but a few diehards, and Vesalius, instead of Galen, became the medical bible.

Cited references: Choulant-Frank, p. 182; Cushing V79; Cushing Vesalius VI.A.-4; Durling 4580; Osler 569; Waller 9902

Gift of John Martin, M.D.