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 |
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Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Award of Excellence in History, 2014 |
Subject |
Natural history illustration -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
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Botanical illustration -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
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Medical illustration -- History -- 16th century
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Illustrated books -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
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Art and science -- History -- 16th century
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NATURE -- Essays.
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NATURE -- Reference.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Ecotourism.
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Art and science
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Botanical illustration
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Illustrated books
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Medical illustration
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Natural history illustration
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Europe
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780226465289 |
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0226465284 |
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