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M. BIESBROUCK. VESALIUS BIBLIOGRAPHY: UPDATE JANUARY 2013
1587 * SAUNDERS, John Bertrand deC.M., Charles Donald O'MALLEY. ‘A reading from
the "De humani corporis fabrica" of Andreas Vesalius’ in Journal of American
College of Dentists, 1944, 11: 211-218.
English translation of chapter XI "De dentibus" (On the teeth), book I of the Fabrica..
1588 * SAUNDERS, John Bertrand deC.M., Charles Donald O’MALLEY. ‘Bernardino
Montaña de Monserrate. Author of the first anatomy in the Spanish language; its
relationship to de Mondeville, Vicary, Vesalius, the English Geminus, and the
history of the circulation’ in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied
Sciences, 1946, 1: 87-107. [HC661]
With some modified figures from Vesalius’s Fabrica.
1589 * SAUNDERS, John Bertrand deC.M., Charles Donald O'MALLEY. ‘The preparation
of the human skeleton by Andreas Vesalius of Brussels’ in Bulletin of the History
of Medicine, 1946, 20: 433-460.
Annotated English translation of chapter XXXIX about articulating a skeleton, book I of the
Fabrica.
1590 * SAUNDERS, John Bertrand deC.M., Charles Donald O'MALLEY. Andreas Vesalius
Bruxellensis: The Bloodletting Letter of 1539. An annotated translation and study
of the evolution of Vesalius’s scientific development, New York, Schuman, [1947],
94 pp.
Translation by John B. deC.M. Saunders and Charles Donald O'Malley, announced by Dr.
H. Cushing on p. 58 of his Vesalius bio-bibliography: see remark in fine IV.-2.
1591 * SAUNDERS, John Bertrand deC.M., Charles Donald O'MALLEY. The illustrations
from the works of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, with annotations and translations,
a discussion of the plates and their background, authorship, and influence, and a
biographical sketch of Vesalius, Cleveland (Ohio) and New York, The World
Publishing Company, 1950, 252 pp., 428 ill.
Plates from the De humani corporis fabrica, Epitome and the Tabulae sex. With a
biographical sketch of Vesalius (pp. 9-40). Also a translation of his letter to Oporinus (pp.
46-48).
Reprints: New-York, Dover publications, 1973 and New York, Gryphon editions, 1993.
Translated into Portugese by Pedro Carlos Piantino Lemos and Maria Cristina Vilhena
Carnevale, São Paulo, Campinas, Imprensa Oficial do Estado e Ateliê Editorial - Editora da
Unicamp, 2003, 268 pp.
Reprint with a Foreword and different title The anatomical drawings of Andreas Vesalius:
with annotations and translations, a discussion of the plates and their background,
authorship, and influence, and a biographical sketch of Vesalius, New York, Bonanza
Books: distributed by Crown, 1982, 248 pp., ill.
Review: Donald B. THORBURN. ‘The illustrations from the works of Andreas Vesalius’ in
Saturday Review of literature (Norman Cousins ed.), 1950, 33 (no. 31).
1592 SAVODNIK, Irwin (ed.). ‘Andreas Vesalius: selection from "Andreas Vesalius’ first
public anatomy at Bologna" by Baldasar Heseler’ in IDEM, The origins of structure
in biology, NewYork, Dabor Science Publications - Oceanside, 1977, 154 pp.
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