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

Publication Data

• Title Picturing the book of nature : image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany
• Author Sachiko Kusukawa
• Publisher University of Chicago Press
• Publication date 2012
• Publication location Chicago
• Language English

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.

Topics

• Natural history illustration :: Europe :: History :: 16th century
• Botanical illustration :: Europe :: History :: 16th century
• Medical illustration :: History :: 16th century
• Illustrated books :: Europe :: History :: 16th century
• 015817725

Picturing the book of nature : image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany by Sachiko Kusukawa. ISBN 9780226465296. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.