Title Picturing the book of nature : image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany / Sachiko Kusukawa

Published Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2012]

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Description 1 online resource (350 pages) : illustrations Contents Printing pictures -- Techniques and craftsmen -- Publishers' calculations -- Copying and coloring -- Control -- Picturing medicinal plants -- Accidents and arguments : Fuchs's De historia stirpium -- Arguments over pictures : reactions to Fuchs's De historia stirpium -- Gessner and the making of the Historia plantarum -- The authority of pictures : Gessner, Mattioli, and Jamnitzer -- Picturing human anatomy -- Vesalius and the bloodletting controversy -- The canon of the human body : Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica -- Text, image, body, and the book Summary Because of their naturalistic pictures of plants and the human body, Leonhart Fuchs's 'De Historia Stirpium' and Andreas Vesalius's 'De Humani Corporis Fabrica' are landmark publications in the history of the printed book. Kusukawa examines these texts Analysis humani corporis fabrica, andreas vesalius, de historia stirpium, leonhart fuchs, plantarum, conrad gessner, medicine, anatomy, botany, nature, visual culture, science, book printing, publishing, renaissance, research, writing, images, authority, representation, reference, nonfiction, scientific knowledge, illustrations, natural history, europe, copying, coloring, medicinal plants, human body, bloodletting, jamnitzer, mattioli Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Award of Excellence in History, 2014 Subject Natural history illustration -- Europe -- History -- 16th century Botanical illustration -- Europe -- History -- 16th century Medical illustration -- History -- 16th century Illustrated books -- Europe -- History -- 16th century Art and science -- History -- 16th century NATURE -- Essays. NATURE -- Reference. TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Ecotourism. Art and science Botanical illustration Illustrated books Medical illustration Natural history illustration Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780226465289 0226465284

Other Titles Image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany

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