Product Description: This is a facsimile in 2 volumes and in full color of the revised version of De Humani Corporis Fabrica, printed at Basel in 1555. The first version was printed at Basel too, in 1543. The publication of De Humani Corporis Fabrica has been a cornerstone in our knowledge of human anatomy, and it remains quoted as such today in all universities around the world...read more

Product Description: Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, first published in 1543 is, along with William Harvey’s classic work from 1628 on the discovery of the circulation of the blood, one of the two most famous books in the history of medicine...read more

Product Description: Andreas Vesalius’ De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the fabric of the human body) is arguably the best-known book produced in the history of Western medicine. Published in 1543, at the height of the Renaissance, it is an exhaustive visual atlas and verbal description of human anatomy based in part on the author’s own dissections; its massive Latin text of over 700 folio pages contains extensive descriptions of the tools and techniques of dissection, as well as of the structures of the human body those tools and techniques reveal...read more