{"id":2402,"date":"2014-12-14T23:46:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T01:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2014-12-15T00:22:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T02:22:26","slug":"the-anatomical-drawings-of-andreas-versalius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/the-anatomical-drawings-of-andreas-versalius\/","title":{"rendered":"The anatomical drawings of Andreas Versalius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/anatomia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2403 aligncenter\" alt=\"anatomia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/anatomia-300x168.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/anatomia-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/anatomia.jpg 976w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The physician Andreas Vesalius was born 500 years ago in 1514; he died fifty years later, in 1564. He is best known for his\u00a0<em>Seven books on the fabric of the human body<\/em>(commonly known as the\u00a0<em>Fabrica<\/em>\u00a0after its Latin title) published in 1543. It was a landmark publication in the history of medicine, with its large format, numerous woodcuts and detailed description of the structures and functions of the human body. Even larger, though much shorter, was a companion piece called the\u00a0<em>Epitome of the seven books on the fabric of the human body<\/em>, published in the same year.<\/p>\n<p>Cambridge University Library has a rich collection of sixteenth-century medical books, including four copies of the first edition, two copies of the second edition of the\u00a0<em>Fabrica<\/em>, and a unique, coloured copy of the\u00a0<em>Epitome<\/em>.\u00a0These books were innovative in form and in content. In form, they were designed with features such as dissected bodies in various gestures, tailor-made initials, continuous background landscapes, and layered paper bodies. In content, they sought to revive first-hand knowledge of anatomy as the foundation of medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.cam.ac.uk\/vesalius\/\">online exhibition<\/a>\u00a0on the Cambridge University Library website.<\/p>\n<p>Related article in HCS-Manguinhos:<\/p>\n<p>Pedraz, Miguel Vicente. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scielo.br\/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0104-59702013000501121&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso&amp;tlng=en\">Body and society in the Libro de la anathom\u00eda del hombre by Bernardino Monta\u00f1a de Monserrate: an anatomist\u2019s political dream<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos vol.20 \u00a0supl.1 Rio de Janeiro Nov. 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published nearly 500 years ago, Andreas Vesalius&#8217;s medical text books made history with its complex art and detailed description of the structures and functions of the human body. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-more-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}