{"product_id":"andreas-vesalius-anatomy-and-the-world-of-books-9781789148527","title":"Andreas Vesalius: Anatomy and the World of Books","description":"\u003cb\u003eA revisionist biography of Andreas Vesalius--the father of modern anatomy--as deeply shaped by Renaissance culture.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1543 the young and ambitious physician Andreas Vesalius published one of the most famous books in the history of medicine, \u003ci\u003eOn the Fabric of the Human Body\u003c\/i\u003e. While we often think of dissection as destroying the body, Vesalius believed that it helped him understand how to construct the human body. In this book, Sachiko Kusukawa shows how Vesalius's publication emerged from the interplay of Renaissance art, printing technology, and classical tradition. She challenges the conventional view of Vesalius as a proto-modern, anti-authoritarian father of anatomy through a more nuanced account of how Vesalius exploited cultural and technological developments to create a big and beautiful book that propelled him into imperial circles and secured his enduring fame.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSachiko Kusukawa\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of the history of science at the University of Cambridge. Her books include \u003ci\u003ePicturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reaktion Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50900944748818,"sku":"9781789148527","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_343c7745-02eb-4ebe-bcda-11354db7c9cb.jpg?v=1738406648","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/andreas-vesalius-anatomy-and-the-world-of-books-9781789148527","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}