Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Vol. 71, No. 1 (JANUARY 2016), pp. 1-18 (18 pages) In this paper, I examine the procedures used by Andreas Vesalius for conducting public ...

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Philadelphia’s College of Physicians is home to tens of thousands of books on medicine spanning centuries of health and science. This week, the group will bring out one of its most prized volumes, a ...

Five centuries ago, a small Flemish man changed medicine forever. Andreas Vesalius was born in Brussels in 1514. He was thought to have some form of dwarfism, but in his professorship in Italy at the ...

In 2007 a retired Canadian doctor paid €13,200 (US$14,256) for a well-used second edition of Andreas Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica (1555), one of the most influential books in history. Only 150 ...

Andreas Vesalius was disappointed with his medical education. He figured out new ways to educate himself — ways that often involved a shovel, a set of duplicate keys to a graveyard, and his own ...

A rare second edition of a classic textbook on the human form by the Renaissance anatomist Andreas Vesalius recently soared past its $1.2 million high estimate to sell for $2.2 million in an online ...

Dániel Margócsy is university lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is co-author of The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius (2018). Mark Somos ...

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Vol. 10, No. 2 (April 1955), pp. 147-172 (26 pages) ...