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De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (Latin, "On the Fabric of the Human Body in Seven Books") is a set of books on human anatomy written by Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) and published in 1543. It was a major advance in the history of anatomy over the long-dominant work of Galen, and presented itself as such.
In the same year Vesalius took residence in Basel to help Johannes Oporinus publish the seven-volume De humani corporis fabrica (On the fabric of the human body), a groundbreaking work of human anatomy that he dedicated to Charles V.
This superb copy of De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (On the fabric of the human body in seven books) by the anatomist and medical doctor Andreas Vesalius (1514-64) was printed by Johannes Oporinus of Basel in August 1555.
Will Richardson (Classics) have collaborated on the translation of the sixteenth-century work by Vesalius—On the Fabric of the Human Body. Here, John Carman details the process of ensuring anatomical accuracy in the translation of this most important work.
Around this time he started work on his opus magnus (great work), De humani corporis fabrica (The fabric of the human body), now regarded as the decisive origin of modern anatomical knowledge and a repudiation of certain facets of the Galenic tradition.
In 1540 Vesalius began developing the Fabrica, as it is called, which took nearly three years. He supervised all aspects of the making of the book and its publication in 1543, giving the...
declaring that human bodies had changed since Galen’s work, he published De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body), a tome of human anatomy based on his own dissections and illustrated with numerous woodcuts of beautifully detailed anatomical studies.
