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M. BIESBROUCK. VESALIUS BIBLIOGRAPHY: UPDATE JANUARY 2013
1485 * RICCOBONUS, Antonius. De Gymnasio Patavino Commentariorum Libri Sex [Six
Books with Comments on the University of Padua], Padua, Francesco Bolzetta,
1598, 148 ll. [HC644]
See p. 25 for remark on Vesalius as explicator chirurgiae, year 1537.
1486 RICHARDSON, Benjamin W. (Sir). ‘Vesalius, and the birth of anatomy’ in
Asclepiad, 1885, 2: 132-156. [HC328]
Portrait. Reprinted: in IDEM, Disciples of Aesculapius, London, Hutchinson and Co, 1900,
vol I., pp. 76-94, ill.
1487 RICHARDSON, Benjamin W. (Sir). Disciples of Aesculapius; with a life of the
author by his daughter Mrs. Geo. Martin, London, 1900, 2 vols. [ILAB]
Also on Vesalius.
1488 * RICHARDSON, Ruth. Death, dissection and the destitute, London, Penguin books,
1988, 426 pp.
On p. 32 short reference to Vesalius and p. 33 a caricature on the title-page of his Fabrica.
1489 * RICHARDSON, William Frank. ‘Historical Preface: Vesalius’s On the Fabric of the
Human Body’ in William Frank RICHARDSON, John Burd CARMAN, Andreas
Vesalius: on the fabric of the human body: A Translation of De Humani Corporis
Fabrica Libri Septem. Vol. I: Book I, The Bones and Cartilages, San Francisco,
Norman Publishing, 1998, pp. ix-xxi.
On Vesalius’s references to classical authors as Galenus, Aristoteles, Hippocrates, Pindar,
Euripides, Herophilus and Erasistratus and the history of medical terminology. Survey of his
life and works.
1490 * RICHARDSON, William Frank. ‘Translator’s Preface’ in William Frank
RICHARDSON, John Burd CARMAN, Andreas Vesalius: on the Fabric of the
Human Body: A Translation of De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem. Vol. I:
Book I, The Bones and Cartilages, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1998, pp.
xxii-xxxiv.
On the process of translating and the Latin text of the Fabrica.
1491 * RICHARDSON, William Frank. ‘Translator’s Preface’ in William Frank
RICHARDSON, John Burd CARMAN, Andreas Vesalius: on the Fabric of the
Human Body: A Translation of De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem. Vol.
II: Book II, The Ligaments and Muscles, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1999,
pp. ix-xvi.
On Vesalius as an expert dissector and his sense of humor (p. x), his criticism as well as
repect towards Galen (p. xi), his reference to tennis or ‘jeu de paume’ and ballet (p. xii-xiii),
on his muscle nomenclature (xiii-xiv) and his references to the tables by means of
‘supralineares’ (p. xv).
1492 * RICHARDSON, William Frank. ‘Translator’s Preface’ in William Frank
RICHARDSON, John Burd CARMAN, Andreas Vesalius: on the Fabric of the
Human Body: A Translation of De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem. Vol.
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