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Anatomical fugitive sheets. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Anatomical fugitive sheets
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All the text in Latin, with some names of anatomical parts also given in Greek. The text is printed in a column, on the right of the woodcut on sheets 1 and 3, on the left on sheet 2. Male and female figures have superimposed flaps. Sheet 1 has seven accessory figures with corresponding explanatory texts (from prima figura to septima); sheet 2 has eight accessory figures and an explanatory text arranged alphabetically (A to H). The main figure has the features of Vesalius; sheet 3 has ten accessory figures and an explanatory text arranged from I to IX.