Facets

1943 CE

#8096

A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius.

The standard annotated bibliography of Vesalius's works, known for its unusual system of numbering entries. Posthumously edited for publication by John F. Fulton and Arturo Castiglioni. Digital facsimile of the 1943 e…

1991 CE–2007 CE

#7415

A history of medicine. 6 vols.

Vol. 1: Primitive and Ancient Medicine (1991/1995), Vol. 2: Greek Medicine (1996), Vol. 3: Roman Medicine (1998), Vol. 4: Byzantine and Islamic Medicine (2001), Vol. 5: Medieval Medicine (2003), Vol. 6: Renaissance Me…

1964 CE

#12693

Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564.

1841 CE

#12685

Études sur André Vésale: Précédées d'une notice historique sur sa vie et ses écrits.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2007 CE

#8050

History, medicine, and the traditions of Renaissance learning.

2006 CE

#7629

Human anatomy: A visual history from the Renaissance to the digital age.

A popular history, with excellent illustrations; probably the first history of anatomy to include a chapter (by Ackerman, project director for the National Library of Medicine's Digital Human Project) on "Anatomy in t…

1999 CE

#9748

Hygiene in the early modern medical tradition.

1994 CE

#7547

La fabbrica del corpo: Libri e dissezione nel Rinascimento.

Translated into English by John Tedeschi and Anne C. Tedeschi as Books of the body: Anatomical ritual and Renaissance learning, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

1999 CE

#7546

Paper bodies: A catalogue of anatomical fugitive sheets 1538-1687. (Medical History, Supplement No. 19)

Describes bibliographically and illustrates the approximately 60 different surviving fugitive sheets together with essays on "The visual culture of Renaissance anatomy," "Anatomical fugitive sheets: Printing, prints a…

2007 CE

#7775

Renaissance vision from spectacles to telescopes.

Through an examination of original economic documents, as well as scientific documents, Ilardi discovered that Florence rather than Venice was the 15th-century center for making eye glasses and that lenses for farsigh…

1999 CE

#7032

Taking positions. On the erotic in Renaissance culture.

Of particular relevance to the history of medical literature is Chapter 8: "Mythology, Sexuality, and Science in Charles Estienne's Manual of Anatomy" (pp. 161-188). This refers to Estienne's De dissectione partium co…

2016 CE

#7861

Wombs with a view: Illustrations of the gravid uterus from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth century.