The Illustrations from the Works of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels With the incredible and sometimes

With the incredible and sometimes overwhelming amount of detail and action going on in these engravings

landscaper

armillary spheres

haunting poem

are given an intensely personal immediacy

The Illustrations from the Works of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels With the incredible and sometimesThe works of Andreas Vesalius (15141564) have long been regarded among the great treasures of the Renaissance. Published as medical books while he was teaching anatomy and dissection at the University of Padua, they include the Tabulae Sex (1538), intended as an aid to students; the magnificently illustrated De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543), and the companion volume, the Epitome (1543). Individually, these books are milestones in the history of