Anatomical instruments on a table used for vivisection. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.

Date:: 1940

Reference:: 24377i

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Anatomical instruments on a table used for vivisection. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Vesalius, following Galen, vivisected pigs in order to demonstrate physiology. The table is shown in use in the vivisection of a pig in the large decorated initial Q in the dedication of the book to Charles V of Spain and in an illustration on p. 661 to book VII, chapter XIX, De vivorum sectione nonnui. The table alone reappears in the second edition of the De fabrica of 1555 at the base of the title page, bearing the privilege

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Bern : Dr A. Wander, 1940.

Physical description

1 print : photolithograph

Contributors

Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564.

Lettering

De instrumentis, quae sectionibus administrandis parari possunt. Caput VII. Anatomicorum instrumentorum delineatio. Lettering below the image describes the use of the table and identifies the instruments on it

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. 128-129, pl. 42

H. Cushing, A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius, 2nd ed., Hamden, Conn. and London 1962, pp. 75-88, no. VI.A.-1

S. W. Lambert, "The initial letters of the anatomical treatise, De humani corporis fabrica, of Vesalius," in S. W. Lambert, et al., Three Vesalian essays to accompany the Icones Anatomicae of 1934, New York 1952, pp. 14-15

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Wellcome Collection 24377i

Reproduction note

The original: is the headpiece woodcut illustration to book II, chapter VII of the De humani corporis fabrica libri septem of Andreas Vesalius (p. 237), published in Basel in 1543

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