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Background for Muscle Men from De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem
Jan van Calcar1543
University of Sydney Library
Camperdown, Australia
The muscle men illustrations are some of the most well known illustrations from Vesalius' De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem, and these images can be found in Liber II (book 2) of the Fabrica, between pages 170 and 208.
Here we have removed the 'muscle men' to create a panorama and focus on the landscape in the background. The location depicted has been debated for centuries, but is accepted by most to be of the Italian countryside.
The Fabrica is considered one of the most important medical books ever published, and changed the way that anatomy was understood and taught.
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- Title: Background for Muscle Men from De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem
- Creator: Andreas Vesalius, Jan Stephan van Calcar, Joannes Oporinus, Caspar Neefe
- Date Created: 1543
- Location Created: Basel, Switzerland
- Original Language: Latin
- Provenance: Fisher Library Rare Books and Special Collections copy acquired in celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the opening of Fisher Library, through the generous support of the Margaret Lundie Fund and the B & A Osborn Book Fund in 2023ac, First owner was German physician Caspar Neefe (1514-79), who later served as personal physician to Duke Albert I of Saxony, and with his handwritten annotations throughout. Previously in a Tyrolean private medical collection
- Type: Printed book
- Original Source: University of Sydney Library, RB Folio 8243.1
- External Link: View the full digitised item
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