Book 1 and 2 treat proportions of fat, medicine, and thin adults and infants. Book 3 covers the mathematical basis for changing proportions of the human figure and face, while Book 4 treats the stereometry of the body as it moves in space.
Creator:
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528
Created:
1528
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Large woodcut colored anatomical figures of a man and a skeleton; the man having 3 moveable flaps. With: Von des Menschen Cörpers Antomey, ein kurtzer, aber vast nützer Ausszug / A. Vasalius. Basel : Johann Herpst, 1543.
Creator:
Schönbrun, Bartholomaeus
Created:
1590?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Title page with woodcut illustration from Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, scholae medicorum Patauinae professoris De humani corporis fabrica libri septem ...
Creator:
Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564 (author); Oporinus, Joannes, 1507-1568 (printer); van Calcar, Jan Stephan, 1499-1546? (illustrator)
Created:
1543
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.