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1551

VESALIUS, ANDREAS. Anatomia Deudsch, ein kurzer Auszug der Beschreibung... Nurenberg: Jul. Paulo Fabricio, 1551.

This Anatomia Deudsch, 1551, is a pirated German edition based on Vesalius' 1543 editions of the Fabrica and Epitome published by Oporinus in 1543. The Epitome summarized the chief disclosures which had been described at much greater length in the Fabrica. Although Vesalius is acknowledged in the introduction, the editor, Jacob Bauman (1521-1586), a physician of Nuremberg, is named on the title page. The anatomical figures are engraved from copper plates, not woodblocks, recopied from Thomas Geminus' Compendiosa totius anatomiae deleneatio, London: 1545. The text, in German, is a translation of the Epitome.

Andreas Vesalius devoted his life to revolutionizing the teaching of anatomy of the human body and to overthrowing the teachings of Galen, who based his work only upon animal dissection.