Picturing the book of nature: image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany

Contents

Printing pictures -- Techniques and craftsmen -- Publishers' calculations -- Copying and coloring -- Control -- Picturing medicinal plants -- Accidents and arguments: Fuchs's De historia stirpium -- Arguments over pictures: reactions to Fuchs's De historia stirpium -- Gessner and the making of the Historia plantarum -- The authority of pictures: Gessner, Mattioli, and Jamnitzer -- Picturing human anatomy -- Vesalius and the bloodletting controversy -- The canon of the human body: Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica -- Text, image, body, and the book.