An arrangement of the spinal nerves. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.

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1940
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24495i
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An arrangement of the spinal nerves. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Bern : Dr A. Wander, 1940.

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Triginta parium nervorum quae a dorsali medulla dorsi ossibus contenta originem ducunt, nuda delineatio ea proportione expressa, qua superiùs venae cavae & magnae arteriae delineationes exhibuimus. Haec trium subsequentibus Capitibus communium figurarum secunda numeratur. The page number "232" is a misprint. It appears on p. 332, which in the Brussels 1970 facsimile reprint of the 1543 edition is unpaginated

References note

J. B. de C. M. Saunders and C. D. O'Malley, The illustrations from the works of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, Cleveland and New York, 1950. pp. 148-149, pl. 50
H. Cushing, A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius, 2nd ed., Hamden, Conn., and London 1962, pp. 75-88, no. VI.A.-1

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Wellcome Collection 24495i

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The original: is a woodcut illustration to book IV of the De humani corporis fabrica libri septem of Andreas Vesalius (p. 332), published in Basel in 1543

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