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Title
Nervorum delineatio, quae septem parium nervorum …
Nervorvm delineatio, qvae septem parivm nervorvm …
Subject
Nervous System--anatomy & histology
Peripheral Nerves--anatomy & histology
Book Illustrations
Description
Illustration attributed to Jan Stephan Kalkar, a student of Titian.--Cf. Choulant, L. Anatomic illustration, p. 170. Printed by Johannes Oporinus
Anatomical diagram of seven pairs of nerves that originate from the brain and the spinal cord.
Title from caption.
Creator
Calcar, Jan Stephan van, 1499-1546?
Source
De humani corporis fabrica is one the most influential books of anatomy. Andreas Vesalius’s text was famously illustrated by both detailed smaller sections of the body and full-body cadavers posed in the Italian countryside.
Original image in: Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564. De humani corporis fabrica (Basileae : Ex officina Joannis Oporini, anno salutis reparatae 1543. Mense Iunio), page 353. ZAd 25 (Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
Publisher
Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Date
1543
Contributor
Oporinus, Joannes, 1507-1568
Language
lat
Type
StillImage
Identifier
ZAd_25.353
Original Format
1 print : woodcut
Physical Dimensions
50 x 38 cm\
Citation
Calcar, Jan Stephan van, 1499-1546?, “Nervorum delineatio, quae septem parium nervorum …,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed November 23, 2024, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/2257.