| Description |
1 online resource (350 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references 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. |
| Summary |
Because of their naturalistic pictures of plants and the human body, Leonhart Fuchs's 'De Historia Stirpium' and Andreas Vesalius's 'De Humani Corporis Fabrica' are landmark publications in the history of the printed book. Kusukawa examines these texts. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Natural history illustration -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
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Natural history illustration. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
16th century |
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Botanical illustration -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
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Botanical illustration. |
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Medical illustration -- History -- 16th century.
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Medical illustration. |
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Illustrated books -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
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Illustrated books. |
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Art and science -- History -- 16th century.
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Art and science. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1599 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Kusukawa, Sachiko. Picturing the book of nature. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012 9780226465296 (DLC) 2011018307 (OCoLC)802319486 |
| ISBN |
9780226465289 |
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0226465284 |
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9780226465296 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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0226465292 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786613862747 |
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