Vesaliana

M. BIESBROUCK. VESALIUS BIBLIOGRAPHY: UPDATE JANUARY 2013
Short solemn communication at this Vesalius-commemoration.
925 JAMES, Robert. ‘Andreas Vesalius’ in A medicinal dictionary, London, 1743-1745,
vol. I, sig. 5T2. [HC552]
This entry, which quotes the opinions of various contemporaries about Vesalius and his
work (often uncomplementary or ‘ill-humoured’ as James says) is followed by accounts of
Carolus Stephanus and Thomas Gemini whom he criticises for a variety of short-comings. -
O’Malley.
926 * JAMES, Teresa M., R. PRESLEY, F.L.D. STEEL. ‘The foramen ovale and sphenoidal
angle in man’ in Anatomy and Embryology, 1980, 160: 93-104.
On the foramen of Vesalius.
927 JAMES, W.B. ‘Quadricentennial of Vesalius’ in New York Medical Journal, 1915,
101: 487-488. [HC214]
927.50 * JANKRIFT, Kay Peter. ‘Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564): Galen auf dem Seziertisch’
in IDEM, Die grossen Ärzte im Porträt, Wiesbaden, Marixverlag, 2007, 78-82.
928 JANSON, Horst Woldemar. ‘Titian’s Laocoon caricature and the Vesalian-Galenist
controversy’ in The Art Bulletin, 1946, 28: 49-53. [HC553]
Reprinted as Appendix (pp. 355-368) in his Apes and ape lore in the middel-ages and the
Renaissance, London, The Warburg Institute, 1952.
Also in his 16 studies, New York, Abrams, [170?], 338 pp.
929 * JANSSEN, Frans A., Ruud M. BOUTHOORN. ‘Vesalius exemplarisch: een auteur
schrijft zijn uitgever’ [Vesalius as an example: an author writes to his editor] in
Boekenwereld, Utrecht, Stichting Matrijs, 1998, 14 (no. 5): 218-230, ill. [KBR]
In Dutch. The best translation of Vesalius’ letter to Oporinus ever.
930 JANSSENS, Paul Adriaan Jan. Van amulet tot penicilline [From amulet to
penicillin], Antwerpen, de Sikkel, 1963, 112 pp.
In Dutch. About Vesalius on p.63-67.
931 * JANTZEN, Hans. ‘Rembrandt, Tulp und Vesal’ in Kunst und Künstler, 1926, 24:
313-314f. [ART52]
On Vesalius’s Portrait in his Fabrica.
931.10 JANUARY, Brendan. Science in the Renaissance, New York, Franklin Watts, 1999,
64 pp., ill.
Juvenile literature, also on Vesalius.
931.15 JASPAR, Henri, Maurice DUVIVIER, Thomas BRAUN. De viris illustribus nostris
[On our famous men], Larcier - Journal des Tribunaux, 1911, 200 pp.
Also on Vesalius.
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