Vesalius/Bibliography

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Fabrica

• Andreas Vesalius's De Humani Corporis Fabrica (The Fabric of the Human Body). National Library of Medicine. A 'turn the pages' online reproduction of selected pages from the book.
• De Humani Coporis Fabrica. Northwestern University. Retrieved on 2011-09-16. Book 1 became available in 2003; a slowly ongoing project at Northwestern University to present a full English translation. Some images available in black and white.
• Andreas Vesalius (2009). William Frank Richardson, John Burd Carman, translators: On the Fabric of the Human Body: The Heart and Associated Organs; The Brain, Books 6-7. Norman Press. ISBN 0930405900.  English translation of Volumes 6 & 7 (The heart and associated organs & The brain), the final portion of the complete translation. Other volumes can be found at this link. Book 1 (The bones and cartilages) has a preview here, Book 2 (Ligaments and muscles) here, Books 3 & 4 (The veins and arteries & The nerves) here, and Book 5 (The organs of nutrition and generation) here.

Biographies

• James M. Ball. (1910) Andreas Vesalius. (Full-Text Online or Download PDF) Medical Science Press. 149 pages.
  • See review of Ball´s book by Clifford Allbutt, 1911. The American Historical Review 17(1):125-127.

• Cunningham A. (1997) Vesalius: The Revival of Galenic Anatomy. In: The Anatomical Renaissance: The Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients. Chapter 4. London: Scolar Press. ISBN 1859283381.
  • Chapter Titles: Part I The Anatomical Renaissance: Introduction: the Anatomical Renaissance; The Ancients of Anatomy; Between Ancients and Moderns; The Renaissance and Anatomy: The First Changes; Vesalius: The Revival of Galenic Anatomy; Columbus: The Revival of Alexandrian Anatomy; Fabricius: The Revival of Aristotelian Anatomy; Part II The Anatomical Reformation? An Enquiry: An Anatomical Reformation?; The Reformation and Anatomizing.