The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius
The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius

Author: Dániel Margócsy

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-05-23

Total Pages: 537

ISBN-13: 9004336303

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Winner 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.

The Cambridge History of Medicine
The Cambridge History of Medicine

Author: Roy Porter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-06-05

Total Pages: 11

ISBN-13: 0521864267

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Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, 'The Cambridge History of Medicine' surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology of key developments and events.

Encyclopedia of Early Cinema
Encyclopedia of Early Cinema

Author: Richard Abel

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 824

ISBN-13: 0415234409

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One-volume reference work on the first twenty-five years of the cinema's international emergence from the early 1890s to the mid-1910s.

Peripheries at the Centre
Peripheries at the Centre

Author: Machteld Venken

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2021-03-01

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1789209676

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Following the Treaty of Versailles, European nation-states were faced with the challenge of instilling national loyalty in their new borderlands, in which fellow citizens often differed dramatically from one another along religious, linguistic, cultural, or ethnic lines. Peripheries at the Centre compares the experiences of schooling in Upper Silesia in Poland and Eupen, Sankt Vith, and Malmedy in Belgium — border regions detached from the German Empire after the First World War. It demonstrates how newly configured countries envisioned borderland schools and language learning as tools for realizing the imagined peaceful Europe that underscored the political geography of the interwar period.