Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 414

ADRIAAN VAN DE SPIEGEL (1578-1625) De humani corporis fabrica libri decem, tabulis XCIIX aeri incisis elegantissimis. [Apud Evangelistam Deuchinum] 1627 [12] 330 (misnumbered 328) [12] pp., 97 plates. 41 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 412

This lengthy and detailed anatomy text by Spiegel did much to bring order to anatomical nomenclature and to describe accurately certain muscle groups, particularly those of the back. When Spiegel died he asked in his will that a German physician, Daniel Bucretius (1600-1631), publish his unillustrated manuscript. In order to furnish illustrations, Bucretius asked the heirs of Casserio (see No. 397) for the plates which Casserio had prepared for an anatomical work which had not been completed at the time of his death in 1616. Of the original seventy-eight, one was destroyed, and Bucretius added twenty plates by the same artists and engravers who had done Casserio's plates. Bucretius published the plates separately as well as with Spiegel's text under the title Tabulae anatomicae. They are among the finest produced in the seventeenth century and are remarkable for their accuracy, beauty of execution, and tasteful arrangement.

See Related Record(s): 397

Cited references: Choulant-Frank, p. 225; Cushing C114 and S361; Garrison-Morton 381; Waller 1812 and 9121; Wellcome 6040 (1632 ed.)