Vesaliana

M. BIESBROUCK. VESALIUS BIBLIOGRAPHY: UPDATE JANUARY 2013
surveyable plates and accurately illustrated], [Basileae] Ex officina Frobeniania per
A. Frob., 1583. [BG]
All but two of the plates are copied from Vesalius’s Fabrica. [NLM] mentions edition:
Basileae, apud Ludovicum König, 1603. See also the note to the reader prefacing the third
book in which the author states that he bought the wood blocks from the heirs of Vesalius.
1415 * PLATTER, Thomas. Thomas und Felix Platter. Zur Sittengeschichte des XVI.
Jahrhunderts, Bearbeitet von Heinrich Boos, Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1878, xvi, 376 pp.
[HC321]
Only short comments on Vesalius’s stay in Basel on pp. 129, 155, 249, and 326-327.
1415.20 PLEDGE, H.T. Science since 1500, London, H.M. Stationary Office, 1939, 357 pp.,
ill.
With diagram on Vesalius’s teachers and pupils on p. 28 and a map with his geographical
localisation on pp. 10, 52-53 and 94.
Other editions: 1940, 1946, 1947 and 1966.
Also by: New York, The Philosophical Library, 1947;
New York, Harper Torchbooks, 1959;
Gloucester (MA), Smith Peter, 1969 and 1990.
1415.40 * [PLESSAS], Pavlos. ‘O taphos tou Andrea Vesal’ [The Tomb of Andreas Vesalius]
in Pampalaia Zakunthinès, February 26th, 2012, 5 pp., ill.
In Greek. See blog
1415.41 * [PLESSAS], Pavlos. ‘Ta aitia tou ainigmatikou thanatou tou Vesaliou stè Zakuntho
to 1564 - The Causes of the Enigmatic Death of Vesalius at Zante in 1564' in
Pampalaia Zakunthinès, March 24th, 2012, 46 pp., ill.
In Greek and English. See blog
1415.42 * [PLESSAS], Pavlos. ‘The position of Our Lady of Graces’ in Pampalaia
Zakunthinès, April 5th, 2012, 8 pp., ill.
In English. See blog
Our Lady of Graces is the church Santa Maria delle Grazie, the burrial-place of Vesalius.
A corrected andn ameliorated version was published as:
‘I thesi tis Panagias toon Charitoon - diaforetiki theorisi / The position of Our Lay of Graces
- from a different viewpoint’ in Pampalaia, June 16th, 2012, 8 pp., ill.; in Greek and
English, see blog
1416 POLLITZER, R.M. ‘Excursions into medical history: Andreas Vesalius (1514-
1564), father of anatomy’ in Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association,
1947, 43: 138-140. [HC635]
1417 * PORTAL, Antoine. ‘Des Anatomistes et des Chirurgiens qui ont fleuri depuis l’an
1543 jusqu’en l’an 1551, ou depuis Vésale jusqu’à Paré’ in Histoire de l’anatomie
et de la chirurgie, contenant l’origine et le progrès de ces sciences; avec un
tableau chronologique des principales découvertes, et un catalogue des ouvrages
d’anatomie et de chirurgie..., tome premier, Paris, P. Fr. Didot le jeune, 1770, 394-
458. [BG] [HC322]
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