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Author Kusukawa, Sachiko
Title Picturing the book of nature : image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany / Sachiko Kusukawa
Imprint Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012
book jacket
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OPACMSG BARCODE
 Fu Ssu-Nien WTN LANG BK  QH46.5 K97 2012    AVAILABLE    30530001095132
 人文社會聯圖  QH46.5 .K87 2012    AVAILABLE    30600020072204
 Modern History Library  508.0222 K97    DUE 06-03-23    30550100521176
 CLP Library  361.024 K97    AVAILABLE    30580003031668
Descript xvii, 331 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 26 cm.
Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-324) and index
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
Subject Natural history illustration -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
Botanical illustration -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
Medical illustration -- History -- 16th century
Illustrated books -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
Art and science -- History -- 16th century
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