Three Vesalian Essays to accompany the Icones Anatomicae of 1934

摘要

Vesalius' Icones Anatomicae of 1934, it will be remembered, were published some twenty years ago by the New York Academy of Medicine and the University of Munich, mainly from the original 16th century woodblocks. How these came to be discovered in an attic of the Munich University Library and in Louvain, and were turned over to Dr. Willy Wiegand of the Bremer Presse, is a fascinating part of this volume. But there is much more than that in this very important book which deserves to be studied carefully by a much wider audience than the title suggests.