Facets

1975

#461.3

Studies in pre-Vesalian anatomy. Biography, translation, documents by L. R. Lind.

Includes English translations of texts by Alessandro Achillini, Alessandro Benedetti, Berengario da Carpi, Gabriele Zerbi, Niccolo Massa, Andrés de Laguna, J. Dryander and G. B. Canano.

1979

#9769

Health, medicine and mortality in the sixteenth century. Edited by Charles Webster.

Chapter 11 is an analysis of the life and work of librarian and key early pioneer in medical informatics, Sanford V. Larkey by Margaret Pelling. Another chapter, by Paul Slack, “Mirrors of health and treasures of poor…

1980

#366.1

Corpus of the anatomical studies in the collection…at Windsor Castle. Edited by K.D. Keele and C. Pedretti. 3 vols.

Splendid edition reproducing all of the drawings in color, and with the original chronology and integrity of the drawings restored. Text provides transliteration of Leonardo’s notes in the original Italian plus Englis…

1980

#11220

Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC).

https://data.cerl.org/istc/_search The Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) , an electronic bibliographic database maintained by the British Library, seeks to catalogue all known incunabula. The database lists book…

1985

#11949

Doctors and medicine in early Renaissance Florence.

1987

#6565.02

Avicenna in Renaissance Italy. The Canon and medical teaching in Italian Universities after 1500.

1990

#8049

Medieval & Early Renaissance medicine: An introduction to knowledge and practice.

1991 –2007

#7415

A history of medicine. 6 vols.

Vol. 1: Primitive and Ancient Medicine (1991/1995), Vol. 2: Greek Medicine (1996), Vol. 3: Roman Medicine (1998), Vol. 4: Byzantine and Islamic Medicine (2001), Vol. 5: Medieval Medicine (2003), Vol. 6: Renaissance Me…

1991

#10265

Botany in medieval and renaissance universities.

Reprints Reeds, "Publishing scholarly books in the sixteenth century," Scholarly Publishing (April, 1983), 259-274.

1992

#7043

Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.

Riddle argued that the ancient world possessed effective and safe contraceptives and abortifacients; however this knowledge about fertility control, widely held in the ancient world, was gradually lost over the course…

1992

#9139

Anothomia di Mondino de' Liuzzi da Bologna, XIV secolo. Edited by Piero P.Giorgi, Gian Franco Pasini, & Albertina Cavazza.

1994

#7547

La fabbrica del corpo: Libri e dissezione nel Rinascimento.

Translated into English by John Tedeschi and Anne C. Tedeschi as Books of the body: Anatomical ritual and Renaissance learning, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

1995

#8129

Medical ethics in the Renaissance.

The first comprehensive examination of medical ethics in the Renaissance.

1997

#8051

The clock and the mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine.

1998

#9141

The Articella in the early press c. 1476-1534.

Digital facsimile from digital.csic.es at this link.

1999

#7032

Taking positions. On the erotic in Renaissance culture.

Of particular relevance to the history of medical literature is Chapter 8: "Mythology, Sexuality, and Science in Charles Estienne's Manual of Anatomy" (pp. 161-188). This refers to Estienne's De dissectione partium co…

1999

#7153

Herbs and herbalism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

1999

#7546

Paper bodies: A catalogue of anatomical fugitive sheets 1538-1687. (Medical History, Supplement No. 19)

Describes bibliographically and illustrates the approximately 60 different surviving fugitive sheets together with essays on "The visual culture of Renaissance anatomy," "Anatomical fugitive sheets: Printing, prints a…

1999

#9748

Hygiene in the early modern medical tradition.

2000

#8229

A history of madness in sixteenth-century Germany.

2004

#11503

Jean Fernel's On the hidden causes of things: Forms, souls and occult diseases in Renaissance medicine.

2006

#7629

Human anatomy: A visual history from the Renaissance to the digital age.

A popular history, with excellent illustrations; probably the first history of anatomy to include a chapter (by Ackerman, project director for the National Library of Medicine's Digital Human Project) on "Anatomy in t…

2006

#8323

The Renaissance hospital: Healing the body and healing the soul.

2007

#7775

Renaissance vision from spectacles to telescopes.

Through an examination of original economic documents, as well as scientific documents, Ilardi discovered that Florence rather than Venice was the 15th-century center for making eye glasses and that lenses for farsigh…

2007

#8050

History, medicine, and the traditions of Renaissance learning.

2008

#14360

The Zurich Paracelsus Project. General editor: Urs Leo Gantenbein. Digital Edition.

A digital edition from the Center for Medieval Studies Zurich: https://www.paracelsus.uzh.ch/index.html "Alterius not sit, qui suus esse potest." "Who can be himself, shall not belong to someone else." "This was the m…

2009

#9677

De Fasciculus medicinae opnieuv bekeken (Academia Regia Belgica Medicinae-Dissertationes, Series Historica, DSH, 11).

A detailed analysis of all the editions of Ketham's Fasciculus.

2013

#7997

Pliny and the artistic culture of the Italian Renaissance.

2015

#13024

Vesalius: The China Root epistle. A new translation and critical edition, edited and translated by Daniel H. Garrison, with added illustrations from the 1543 and 1555 De humani corporis fabrica.

2016

#7518

A census of Greek medical manuscripts: From Byzantium to the Renaissance.

An amended and updated index of Diels' catalogue (No. 6767), and a list of items missed or overlooked in Diels, or located since.

2016

#7861

Wombs with a view: Illustrations of the gravid uterus from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth century.

2016

#9401

Success and suppression: Arabic sciences and philosophy in the Renaissance.

A bibliographically oriented historical analysis of the numerous Renaissance translations of Arabic medical, scientific and philosophical works into Latin from the Arabic, which the author argues reached a peak in the…

2017

#8570

Medicine and humanism in late medieval Italy: The Carrara herbal in Padua.

2017

#9092

Principles of anatomy according to the opinion of Galen by Johann Guinter and Andreas Vesalius. Edited [with an English translation] by Vivian Nutton.

The first translation into English of Johann Guinter’s textbook as revised and annotated by Guinter’s student, Andreas Vesalius, in 1538. Despite Vesalius’ fame as an anatomist, his 1538 revision has attracted almost …

2017

#10752

The art and science of healing from antiquity to the Renaissance. Exhibition catalogue Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - University of Michigan Library 10 February - 30 April 2017.

Finely illustrated and annotated catalogue including objects and rare books and manuscripts collected by Le Roy Crummer, Lewis Stephen Pilcher, and Campbell Bonner. Until publication of this catalogue material in the …

2018

#10543

The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: A worldwide descriptive census, ownership, and annotations of the 1543 and 1555 editions.

Detailed bibliographical information, ownership records, and worldwide census, including description of the handwritten annotations in the surviving copies of the first two editions of Vesalius's De humani corporis fa…

2019

#14012

Sir William Osler's Leonardo da Vinci collection: Flight, anatomy and art.

2020

#13668

In the shadow of Vesalius: An exciting series of new insights into life and work of Andreas Vesalius and his friends. Edited by Robrecht Van Hee.

2021

#13667

Vesaliana: An updated and annotated Vesalius Bibliography, including all known publications on Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) and his works. Compiled by Maurits Biesbrouck.

http://www.andreasvesalius.be/ A bibliography of studies about Vesalius and his works. When I added this entry in October 2021 the latest version was a 582-page PDF dated January 2021.