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Skeleton leaning on a spade from 'De humani corporis fabrica libri septem'
Jan van Calcar1543
University of Sydney Library
Camperdown, Australia
This page of Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (On the fabric of the human body in seven books) is one of the best known illustrations from the Fabrica.
The paints used by the first owner, German physician Caspar Neefe to colour many of the illustrations in this copy of the Fabrica would have been made from the pigments available at the time, such as lapis-lazuli, azurite, malachite, calcite, and umber.
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: Skeleton leaning on a spade from 'De humani corporis fabrica libri septem'
- Creator: Andreas Vesalius, Jan Steven van Calcar, Caspar Neefe, Joannes Oporinus
- 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 2023, 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
- Subject Keywords: Science, Anatomy
- Type: Printed book
- Original Source: University of Sydney Library, RB Folio 8243.1
- External Link: View this page in the digitised version, View the full digitised item
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