The Library of Congress has previously cataloged this title under ISBN 978-0-8118-3208-3.
ISBN 978-1-4521-1687-7 (ebook)
Chronicle Books
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The author is grateful for the help from the following people and institutions:
The Woodward Biomedical Library at the University of British Columbia for permission to reproduce the woodcuts from Andreas Vesalius’s Fabrica.
Greg Morton of the Biomedical Communications Department at the University of British Columbia for the photography of the woodcuts from the Fabrica.
Mike Smith of Smith Photo, Gamma Pro Imaging, and Kristin Sjaarda for photography of the art reproduced throughout.
Thanks also to: Helge Windisch of Cologne, for researching and translating details concerning the Munich University Library; Dr Wolfgang Müller of the Munich University Library for the detailed notes pertaining to the loss of the Vesalius woodblocks; Dr Manfred Skopec of the Institut Für Geschichte der Medizin der Universtät Wien, for information on the Josephinum; Don Stewart of MacLeod’s Books in Vancouver, for the loan of the Maggs Brothers and Thomas Thorpe booksellers’ catalogues; Lee Perry of the Woodward Biomedical Library at the University of British Columbia, for her interest in the project and for allowing me to have pages from their copy of the first edition of the Fabrica photographed; Nick Bantock, for his support and invaluable comments; Saeko Usukawa and Erika Berg, for alerting me to unusual anatomical curiosities; Annie Barrows, my editor, for her relentlessly tough questions and comments, and for her constant support; Karen Silver, for her encouragement; Erin Van Rheenan, copyeditor; Madame M. Girov-Swiderski, for the Latin translation; Natascha Dreger, for the German translations; Lisa Jensen and Steve Hepburn, for their help; Todd Belcher, for the photography assistance; Liz Darhansoff, my agent; and Isabelle Swiderski, for keeping pressing work at bay.
The skeleton on the flap of Chapter 2 comes from the Encyclopœdia Britannica, 9th edition, London: 1878.
The flap art on Chapter 9 was created by L.W Yaggy and James J. West in 1885.
The quote on Chapter 13 comes from Hall’s Encyclopœdia, London (18th century).
The 19th-century anatomical figure on the same page is a lithograph by Ludovic after Léveillé, printed in Paris by Lemercier.
The facsimile of the book page on Chapter 15 is adapted from Harvey Cushing’s A Bio-Biography of Andreas Vesalius. New York: Schuman’s, 1943.
All images, unless otherwise credited, are from private collections.
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