Main description:

"The Fabric of the Human Body", an annotated translation of Andreas Vesalius' "De humani corporis fabrica", will be published by Karger Publishers in autumn 2013. The new book recreates the masterpiece of science and art for the first time in a way that is understandable to 21st century readers who do not have any knowledge of Latin. The texts of both the 1543 and the 1555 editions have been translated with the utmost care by Northwestern University Professors Emeritus Daniel H. Garrison and Malcolm H. Hast, a task they completed in over 20 years of painstaking and dedicated work. Annotations give the reader keen insight into just how innovative "De humani corporis fabrica" was, and high-resolution digital scans of the almost 300 woodcuts provide the images with a sharpness they never had before.

Contents:

Book I: Dedicated to Those Things That Sustain and Support the Entire Body, by Which All Things Are Steadied, and to Which They Are Attached
Book II: Dedicated to All the Ligaments and Muscles, Instruments of Voluntary Motion Dependent on Our Judgment, Presenting Virtually All the Figures Proper to It Prior to the Chapters as Now Set Forth
Book III: In Which the Series of Veins and Arteries throughout the Entire Body Is Described and the Figures Peculiar to It Are Placed at the Beginning of the Chapters to which They Belong
Book IV: Dedicated to the Nerves, Showing Figures Peculiar to It in Front of the Chapters to Which They Are Suited
Book V: Dedicated to the Organs of Nutrition by Food and Drink and, because of Their Connection and Proximity, to the Instruments Serving Generation, Showing at the Beginning, Together and in Order, All the Figures Belonging Thereto, to Avoid the Necessity of Placing the Same Figures at the Beginning of the Several Chapters
Book VI: Dedicated to the Heart and the Organs Serving It, Presenting Figures Peculiar to It at the Beginning to Avoid Placing the Same Figures at the Head of All the Various Chapters in this Book As Well
Book VII: Dedicated to the Brain, Seat of the Animal Faculty, and to the Organs of the Senses, Showing at the Beginning Virtually All Its Figures as in the Preceding Two Books