In some ways, Brussels-born, Renaissance-era surgeon/physician/anatomist Andreas Vesalius was quite like modern-day academics. He favored new research, discarding then-prevalent attitudes toward the ...

‘Mind-blowing’ edition of 16th-century anatomist’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem estimated to be worth up to £1m When the Renaissance physician Andreas Vesalius wrote his magnum opus on ...

Philadelphia’s College of Physicians is home to tens of thousands of books on medicine spanning centuries of health and science. This week, the group will bring out one of its most prized volumes, a ...

Book collectors dream of finding something rare. But North Vancouver collector Dr. Gerry Vogrincic found something truly unique: the personal, annotated copy of Andreas Vesalius’s masterwork on ...

Illustration from Vesalius’s annotated ‘De humani corporis fabrica’ (1555) (via Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library) When it was published in 1543, Andreas Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica changed ...

The 2025 record price for Andreas Vesalius was for Icones anatomicae The 2024 record price for Andreas Vesalius was for De humani corporis fabrica The 2023 record price for Andreas Vesalius was for De ...

Five centuries ago, a small Flemish man changed medicine forever. Andreas Vesalius was born in Brussels in 1514. He was thought to have some form of dwarfism, but in his professorship in Italy at the ...

Leaf through a textbook, watch a wellness influencer, or listen in at the gym, and it can feel as though the human body has ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564), an ...