History of the RSM - December 2011
A woodcut illustration from De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres.
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.CHARLES ESTIENNE
(1504 – c1564)
Estienne’s book 'De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres' was published two years after Vesalius’s famous De Fabrica, but may be considered pre-Vesalian because many of its plates are dated between 1530 and 1532 and the book was several years in production with publication delayed by a dispute between the author and the surgeon Etienne Riviere, who had assisted at dissections and supplied some of the illustrations for the book.
This book will be on display in the Library of the Royal Society of Medicine from 9th January to 24th February 2012 as part of an exhibition of books from our collection with woodcut illustrations.
Previous features of the month:
- November 2011 - John Hunter
- October 2011 - Ignaz Philip Semmelweis
- September 2011 - The signature of Thomas Beddoes
- August 2011 - Librarians' Room 23
- July 2011 - History of the RSM
- June 2011 - Occult Physick
- May 2011 - William Harvey Lecture
- April 2011 - Improvised bookmarks
- March 2011 - The Blitz
- February 2011 - The RSM Library
- January 2011 - Albert J. Edmunds
- December 2010 - Edward Law Memorial Fund
