Category: Biographies
TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE ILLUSTRIOUS MEN WHO OFTEN UNDER ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES AND SOMETIMES IN DANGER OF DEATH SUCCEEDED IN UNRAVELLING THE MYSTERIES OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE HUMAN BODY, TO THE FATHERS OF ANATOMY AND TO THE ARTIST-ANATOMISTS THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
Another famous member of the Paris Faculty of this period, and a man whose life-story reads like a romance, was Joannes Guinterius, the beggar of Deventer. Guinterius (Gonthier,...
7. Part 7Vesalius devotes one hundred and eighty-eight pages to a description of the ligaments and the muscles. This part of his treatise, while it contains a few errors and does not rea...
2. Part 2The fifteenth century, which was one of the most remarkable epochs in history, was rich in accomplishment. Almost all of the great events which have influenced European commerci...
3. Part 3The new city which for centuries was the intellectual and commercial storehouse of Europe, Africa and India, was of oblong form. Lake Mareotis washed its walls on the south, whi...
4. Part 4Early in the sixteenth century a Holland physician, Laurentius Phryesen (_Phries_, _Friesen_), residing in the German city of Colmar and later at Metz, wrote a popular book on m...
6. Part 6On two occasions, probably in the years 1539 and 1540, Vesalius was called from Padua to Bologna to conduct public dissections. This was a great honor, for Bologna was the city...
8. Part 8Ingrassias, who lived between the years 1510-1580, was a graduate of the celebrated Paduan School. He described minutely the anatomy of the ear, including the tympanum, fenestra...
1. Part 1TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE ILLUSTRIOUS MEN WHO OFTEN UNDER ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES AND SOMETIMES IN DANGER OF DEATH SUCCEEDED IN UNRAVELLING THE MYSTERIES OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE HUMA...
9. Part 9B Banister, John 127 Basel, view of 83 Beatrizet, Nicholas 128 Becerra, Caspar 128 Bell, John 18 Bembo 12 Benedictine Monastery 5 Berengario da Carpi 43-46 Bertruccius 29 Boccac...