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Anatomicorum instrumentorum delineatio

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Title

Anatomicorum instrumentorum delineatio
Anatomicorvm instrvmentorvm delineatio

Subject

Anatomy--instrumentation
Surgical Instruments
Book Illustrations

Description

Illustration attributed to Jan Stephan Kalkar, a student of Titian.--Cf. Choulant, L. Anatomic illustration, p. 170. Printed by Johannes Oporinus
Table with an assortment of instruments used for dissection.
Title from caption.

Creator

Calcar, Jan Stephan van, 1499-1546?

Source

Original image in: Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564. De humani corporis fabrica (Basileae : Ex officina Joannis Oporini, anno salutis reparatae 1543. Mense Iunio). ZAd 25 (Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
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.

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_25.237
ZAd_25.237c

Original Format

1 print : woodcut

Physical Dimensions

38 x 27 cm

Citation

Calcar, Jan Stephan van, 1499-1546?, “Anatomicorum instrumentorum delineatio,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed December 22, 2024, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/2415.