Andreas Vesalius, the Reformer of Anatomy
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Chapters (48)
- ANDREAS VESALIUS THE Reformer of Anatomy
- PREFACE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- The General Renaissance
- The Anatomical Renaissance
- CHAPTER FIRST Anatomy in Ancient Times
- CHAPTER SECOND Mondino, the Restorer of Anatomy
- CHAPTER THIRD Mondino’s Successors
- Gabriel de Zerbi
- John Peyligk
- Magnus Hundt
- Laurentius Phryesen
- Alexander Achillinus
- Berengario da Carpi
- John Dryander
- Charles Estienne
- CHAPTER FOURTH Vesalius’s Early Life
- CHAPTER FIFTH Sojourn in Paris
- Joannes Guinterius of Andernach
- Jean Fernel
- CHAPTER SIXTH Vesalius Returns to Louvain
- CHAPTER SEVENTH Professor of Anatomy in Padua
- CHAPTER EIGHTH First Contribution to Anatomy
- Tabulae Anatomicae
- CHAPTER NINTH Publication of the Fabrica
- The Fabrica
- CHAPTER TENTH Publication of the Epitome
- The First Book
- The Second Book
- The Third Book
- The Fourth Book
- The Fifth Book
- The Sixth Book
- The Seventh Book.
- Conclusion
- CHAPTER TWELFTH Contemporary Anatomists
- Bartholomeus Eustachius
- Realdus Columbus
- Gabriel Fallopius
- John Philip Ingrassias
- CHAPTER THIRTEENTH Commentators and Plagiarists
- CHAPTER FOURTEENTH The Court Physician
- CHAPTER FIFTEENTH Pilgrimage and Death
- FOOTNOTES
- INDEX
- INDEX
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