Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 294

ANDREAS VESALIUS (1514-1564) Epitome anatomica. Opus redivivum, cui accessere, notae ac commentaria P. Paaw. Ex officina Justià Colster 1616 [8] 226 pp., illus., fold. plate. 19.9 cm.

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

This is basically a reprint of the Epitome with commentary and notes after each chapter by Pieter Pauw (see No. 401). The text is taken largely from the Epitome and Pauw has added a chapter on the names of the parts of the human body. The beautiful woodcuts of the Epitome have been replaced by thirteen small copper engravings from the Fabrica which are scattered through the text. Pauw, a pupil of Fabricius at Padua, was professor of anatomy at Leiden and wrote a number of anatomical works which reflected the new anatomical concepts set forth by Vesalius. He was also successful in having an anatomical theater constructed at Leiden while he was there.

See Related Record(s): 401

Cited references: Choulant-Frank, p. 181; Cushing V105; Cushing Vesalius VI.D.-19; Osler 578; Waller 9921; Wellcome 6567 (1633 ed.)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.