Picturing the book of nature : image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany / Sachiko Kusukawa.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2012], ©2012.

xvii, 331 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

pt. 1. Printing pictures. Techniques and craftsmen ; Publishers' calculations ; Copying and coloring ; Control -- pt. 2. Picturing medicinal plants. Accidents and arguments : Fuchs's De historia stirpium ; Arguments over pictures : reactions to Fuchs's De historia stirpium ; Gessner and the making of the Historia plantarum ; The authority of pictures : Gessner, Mattioli, and Jamnitzer -- pt. 3. Picturing human anatomy. Vesalius and the bloodletting controversy ; The canon of the human body : Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica ; Text, image, body, and the book.

Includes bibliographical references and index.