VESALIUS, Andreas
(b. 1514, Bruxelles, d. 1564, Zakynthos)

Title page

1543
Engraving
National Library of Medicine, Washington

The picture shows the title page of Vesalius's book De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body), published in 1543. The drawing represents a dissected human body in allegorical pose.




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