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Picturing the book of nature : image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany
- Title
- Picturing the book of nature : image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany / Sachiko Kusukawa.
- Author
- Kusukawa, Sachiko.
- Publication
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 12-1227 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 331 p. : col. ill., col. map; 27 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-324) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFF 12-1227
- ISBN
- 9780226465296 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226465292 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011018307
- OCLC
- 711050907
- Author
- Kusukawa, Sachiko.
- Title
- Picturing the book of nature : image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany / Sachiko Kusukawa.
- Imprint
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-324) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 12-1227