Illustrated anatomical atlas
Anatomía basada en la disección ilustrada (De humani corporis fabrica)
- Date
- 1543 · confidence high
- Place
- Padua, Italy (printed in Basel)
- Credited to
- Andreas Vesalius; woodcuts from Titian's workshop (Jan van Calcar)
- People
- 👤 Andrés Vesalio1514–1564
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
A treatise correcting Galen through direct dissection and precise woodcut plates, integrating text and printed image. It founded modern anatomy and the method of observation in medicine.
What it led to
- Observational medicine, as against the authority of ancient texts
- Anatomical theatres (Padua, 1594; Leiden, 1596)
- Experimental physiology (Harvey)
- A model for the illustrated scientific book
Built on
- Movable-type printing pressc. 1450
- Modern human anatomy (Vesalius)1543
- Woodcut and copperplate engraving
- Dissections by Mondino and Leonardo
Made possible
- Blood circulation1628
- Anatomical surgery
- Microscopic anatomy