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OverviewWinner of the Third Neu-Whitrow Prize (2021) granted by the Commission on Bibliography and Documentation of IUHPS-DHST Additional background information This book provides bibliographic information, ownership records, a detailed worldwide census and a description of the handwritten annotations for all the surviving copies of the 1543 and 1555 editions of Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica. It also offers a groundbreaking historical analysis of how the Fabrica traveled across the globe, and how readers studied, annotated and critiqued its contents from 1543 to 2017. The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius sheds a fresh light on the book’s vibrant reception history and documents how physicians, artists, theologians and collectors filled its pages with copious annotations. It also offers a novel interpretation of how an early anatomical textbook became one of the most coveted rare books for collectors in the 21st century. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dániel Margócsy , Mark Somos , Stephen N. JoffePublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 28 Weight: 2.201kg ISBN: 9789004336292ISBN 10: 900433629 Pages: 518 Publication Date: 28 June 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations 1 Introduction 1.1 Historical Background 1.2 Research Methods for the Census 1.3 Historiographical Intervention 2 A Valuable Book 2.1 Historical Price Analysis 2.2 Showcasing Ownership: Bindings 2.3 Decoration and Function: Hand-Colored Copies 3 Provenance 3.1 The Physician’s Book: Ownership between 1550–1650 3.2 The Jesuit Century: Ownership between 1650–1750 3.3 The Years of Change: Ownership between 1750–1850 3.4 Vesalius in America: Ownership between 1850–1950 3.5 The Global Fabrica: Ownership since 1950 4 Reading and Annotating the Fabrica: The Sporadic Reader 4.1 The Typical Reader: A Case Study from Los Angeles 4.2 The Average Reader: A Frequency Analysis 4.3 Scribbling at the Front: Fashioning the Reader and the Author 4.4 Image and Text: Learning to See 4.5 Personal Experience and Bookish Learning 4.6 The Body in Parts: Generation and Control 4.7 Creating Order: Corrections, Errata, and Search Techniques 5 Censorship: Controlling Reading 5.1 Licensed Readers 5.2 Soul and Sex 6 Conclusion Guide to the Catalogue CATALOGUE 1543 Editions Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Canada China Czech Republic Denmark Estonia France Germany Hungary Ireland Israel Italy Japan Mexico The Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Slovakia Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom United States 1555 Editions Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Canada Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Hungary Ireland Israel Italy Japan Latvia Mexico The Netherlands New Zealand Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Ukraine United Kingdom United States Copies Sold at Auctions Since 1990 1543 Editions 1555 Editions Private Copies 1543 Editions 1555 Editions Appendix Bibliography General Index Index of Owners Index of Places of OwnershipReviews[...] it really should be on any shelves aiming to support study in the history of books, libraries, medicine, or art. David Pearson (University of London), Library & Information History, 2019, vol. 35, no. 2, pp 120-122 [...] readers can see how the first great modern anatomical book becomes, across the centuries, a rare book for collectors, while maintaining valuable content for physicians and surgeons, historians of medicine and artists. Jacqueline Vons, Metascience, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-019-00464-4 This book is a high-quality publication, plentifully supplied with colour plates, graphs and maps to illustrate the authors' findings. It is a very readable text and will be an invaluable resource for any Vesalius scholar. It will also have a broader appeal however, for anyone interested in how early modern books travel through time and space, or how early modern readers interacted with their texts. - Richard W. Tait (Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Australia), Endeavour, 10 December 2018 This book is a high-quality publication, plentifully supplied with colour plates, graphs and maps to illustrate the authors' findings. It is a very readable text and will be an invaluable resource for any Vesalius scholar. It will also have a broader appeal however, for anyone interested in how early modern books travel through time and space, or how early modern readers interacted with their texts. - Richard W. Tait (Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Australia), Endeavour, 10 December 2018 [...] it really should be on any shelves aiming to support study in the history of books, libraries, medicine, or art. - David Pearson, University of London, in: Library & Information History, 35/2 (2019), pp 120-122 [...] readers can see how the first great modern anatomical book becomes, across the centuries, a rare book for collectors, while maintaining valuable content for physicians and surgeons, historians of medicine and artists. - Jacqueline Vons, in: Metascience [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-019-00464-4] This book is a high-quality publication, plentifully supplied with colour plates, graphs and maps to illustrate the authors' findings. It is a very readable text and will be an invaluable resource for any Vesalius scholar. It will also have a broader appeal however, for anyone interested in how early modern books travel through time and space, or how early modern readers interacted with their texts. - Richard W. Tait, Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Australia, in: Endeavour, 10 December 2018 Author InformationDániel Margócsy, (PhD Harvard, 2009), is University Lecturer at the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He is author of Commercial Visions: Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014). Mark Somos (PhD Harvard, 2007; PhD Lugd. Bat., 2014) is Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg), Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Sussex Law School, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Grotiana. Stephen N. Joffe, MBBCh (1967), MD (1976), was Professor of Surgery at University of Cincinnati. He has published multiple articles and textbooks on lasers in medicine and early anatomists. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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