Vesaliana

M. BIESBROUCK. VESALIUS BIBLIOGRAPHY: UPDATE JANUARY 2013
"Vesaliana" in Harvey Cushing’s bio-bibliography] in Scientiarum Historia, 1993,
19: 113-133.
In Dutch. A list of 298 Vesaliana since Cushing.
283 CALKINS, C.M., J.P. FRANCIOSI, G.L. KOLESARI. ‘Human anatomical science and
illustration: the origin of two inseparable disciplines’ in Clinical Anatomy, 1999,
12 (no. 2): 120-129. [MML]
About the importance of Andreas Vesalius for anatomical illustration.
284 * CALLEBAT, Louis. Histoire du médecin, Paris, Flammarion, 1999, 319 pp.
Some remarks on Vesalius p. 116-118.
285 * CALOGIROU, Demetrios K. ‘Andreas Vesalius, quelques traits de sa vie et de ses
observations sur le coeur’ in Histoire des sciences médicales, 1974, 8: 187-200, ill
[RC53]
285.50 * CAMBRIDGE, Nicholas. ‘On the Fabric of the Human Body: Book 1, The Bones
and the Cartilages, translated by William Frank Richardson and John Burd
Carman’ in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1999, 92: 212.
Review. On why Vesalius’s Fabrica has been virtually unread.
285.80 * CANANO, Giovanni Battista. Musculorum humani corporis picturata dissectio
[Illustrated anatomy of the muscles of the human body], [Ferrara, n.p., 1541?] 20
ll.
See also Facsimile edition (Florence, 1925), with an ‘Introduction’ by Harvey Cushing
(reporting on a fragment of the Tabualae anatomica sex, which should been moved from
Munich to Louvain) and a ‘Giambattista Canano Biographical Notice’ by Edward C.
Streeter (the attendance of a dissection in Canano’s house by Vesalius’ brother Francis,
Vesalius’ visit to Ferrara and the influence of his Fabrica on the fate of Canano’s work, the
visit of John Caius to his library there, his dicovery of m. palmaris brevis and - much more
importantly - of the valves in the veins such as the v. azygos, a fact also included by
Vesalius at the end of Chapter 4 of book III in his Fabrica 1555)
286 * CANE, Philip. ‘Andreas Vesalius’ in IDEM, Giants of science - The worlds of
science, Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1959, pp. 47-50, ill.
Also Pyramid Publications 1961, 1962, 1966.
287 * CANGUILHEM, Georges. ‘L'homme de Vésale dans le monde de Copernic: 1543' in
Commémoration solennelle du quatrième centenaire de la mort d’André Vésale -
Plechtige herdenking van het vierde eeuwgetij van het overlijden van Andreas
Vesalius, 19-24/X/1964, Bruxelles - Brussel, Académie Royale de Médecine de
Belgique - Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Geneeskunde van België, 1964, p.
145-154.
Also in Etudes d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences, Paris, Vrin, 1970, 27-35.
Later edition in Paris: Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond, 1991, 28 pp. (by Laboratoires
Delagrange).
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