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M. BIESBROUCK. VESALIUS BIBLIOGRAPHY: UPDATE JANUARY 2013
1601 * SCHENCK, Johann [Schenck] von Grafenberg. A"D"20F,T< sive Observationum
medicarum, rariorum, novarum admirabilium, et monstrosarum volumen, tomis
septem de toto homine institutum [Seven books on the whole of man or
observations on medicine, curiosities, interesting new things and monsters...],
Francofurti, E typ. N. Hoffmani, 1609. [BG] [HC355]
The earliest sourcebook for pathological observations of Andreas Vesalius, among others.
With several clinical observations by Vesalius, also on the accident of Don Carlos and the
consilium for the Duke of Terranova, etc. See Book I, p. 17, Book IV, p. 707, Book V, p.
787.
First published at Basel in 1584-97.
Later edition: Francofurti, sumptibus Joannis Beyeri, excudebat Hieronymus Polichius,
1665, 918 pp. [BG]
See also no. 1736.25.
1602 SCHERRINGTON, C. The endeavour of Jean Fernel: with a list of the editions of his
writings, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1946, 223 pp. [SMT]
Comparison between Fernel and Vesalius, two contemporaries.
Facsimile edition Folkestone, Dawson, 1974.
1603 SCHIAFFINO, R. Historia de la medicina en el Uruguay, Montevideo, Imprenta
Nacional "Rosgal", 1927-1937, 2 vols: I, 610 pp.; II, 610 pp. [SMT]
The first volume contains five parts, the first dealing with medicine in Spain at the time
America was discovered and with a discussion about Vesalius.
1604 * SCHIDER, Fritz. An atlas of anatomy for artists, New York, Dover Publications,
1957, 189 plates.
Plates 140-147 from Vesalius’s Epitome and Fabrica (1555). Short remarks on p. xxii and
second last page.
German editon Plastisch-Anatomischer Handatlas für Akademien, Kunstschulen und zum
Selbstunterricht, E.A. Seeman, 1929.
1604.98 SCHIERBEEK, Abraham. ‘Van Aristoteles tot Pasteur, IV. Andreas Vesalius’ [From
Aristotle to Pasteur] in Levende Natuur, 1920, 20, 225.
In Dutch. Also in Van Aristoteles tot Pasteur. Leven en werken der groote biologen,
Amsterdam, 1923, 479 pp., ill.
1605 * SCHIERBEEK, Abraham. ‘Volcher Coiters place in the world of science. B. Coiter
as comparative anatomist, physiologist and embryologist’ in Volcher Coiter,
Opuscula selecta Neerlandicorum de arte medica, Fasciculus duodevigesimus,
quem curatores miscellaneorum quae vocantur Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor
Geneeskunde collegerunt et ediderunt, Amstelodami, sumptibus Societatis, 1955,
XLVII-LXVII.
Vesalius on the ossicles of the ear (p. LII), and comparative anatomy (p. XLVIII-XLIX), Vesalius
depicts already the fossa ovalis of the heart (p. LIII), Vesalius and Colombo (p. LIV), Daremberg on
Vesalius (p. LV), Galenus influence on the Tabulae sex and the use of apes by Vesalius (p. LIX), the
nervus opticus, sinus frontalis and rete mirabile (p. LXV).
1605.80 * SCHILLER, Francis. ‘The Cerebral Ventricles: from Soul to Sink’ in Archives of
Neurology, 1997, 54: 1158-1162, ill.
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