Word: vesalius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editorial board, headed by Gerard Piel, former LIFE science editor, and backers who included Lessing J. Rosenwald and Bernard Baruch, Scientific American hoped to bring science into 100,000 armchairs. Inside the sleek, four-color cover of its May issue were well-illustrated articles on such topics as Vesalius, founder of modern anatomy; the Amazon River; the "dust cloud" theory of the formation of planetary systems. First press run: 100,000 copies, including 40,000 for subscribers...
Thus complains the Metropolitan Museum's scholarly Curator of Prints William M. Ivins Jr., writing of one of the most nobly illustrated volumes in the world. The book is Andreas Vesalius' The Fabric of the Human Body, printed in Basel just 400 years ago. This work visualized for the first time in history the true structure of the human form and was called by the late, great Sir William Osier "the greatest medical book ever written-from which modern medicine starts." For its woodcut pictures, the volume is of similar luster to artists and connoisseurs...
...wars of the 20th Century have twice balked quatercentenary celebrations of Vesalius (born in 1514) and his book. But, war or no war, the Medical Library Association has now printed a Vesalius Number of its Bulletin. The majestic, often astounding full-page delineations of skeletons, muscles, veins and viscera found in the Fabrica* are generally attributed to Jan van Calcar, Flemish pupil of Titian. But Andreas Vesalius, to a certain extent an unscrupulous self-promoter, brought his book out with no credit to his collaborator...
...Vesalius was the outstanding anatomy teacher of his time. While still in his 20s he held professorships in three Italian universities. Dissection was an art he had practiced from childhood. In his medical-school days in Paris, he had sometimes taken over demonstrations from his teachers. As a teacher himself he wanted improved diagrams to illustrate his written text. In search of an artist, he may have gone to Titian's workshop. Certainly some of the Titian-style drawings he commissioned were by Calcar...