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Vesalius, the China root epistle : a new translation and critical edition

By DuBois , Andreas , Jacques; Garrison , Daniel H.; Vesalius

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
1107026350, 978-1-107-02635-3, 9781139207102, 1139207105, 9781316003756, 1316003752
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16276960 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
290\294
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Human anatomy Early works to 1800 Smilax Therapeut

Description

This book provides the first annotated English translation from the original Latin of Andreas Vesalius' China Root Epistle. Ostensibly his appraisal of a fashionable herbal remedy, the China Root Epistle concentrates on Vesalius' skeptical appraisal of traditional Galenic anatomy, which was based on animal rather than human dissections. Along with reflections about his life as a young anatomist, Vesalius argued that the new science of anatomy should devote itself less to rhetorical polemics and more to the craft of direct observation based on human dissection. This volume provides annotations to link the Epistle with Vesalius' earlier and more famous On the Fabric of the Human Body, and includes illustrations from the famous woodcuts first used in the 1543 edition of the Fabrica

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