Aside from the Northwestern University’s (apparently halted?) efforts to translate Vesalius De Humani Corporis Fabrica, the final volume of the anatomist’s work (part of an ongoing translation effort by Dr. William Frank Richardson), has been completed. The books are available both in regular and collector’s editions here.
*rubs hands together* This will make systematic analysis of the Fabrica possible for us peons unable to read Latin!
I’m lucky enough to be in a situation where I love the career I’m building for myself. I didn’t always know that I wanted to be a historian, though. One significant moment which affirmed my choices happened this past fall while I was enrolled in a course on the history of the early printed book at the University of Victoria. The class was tasked with engaging an early modern printed book in a hands-on project; rare enough at the undergraduate level, but made particularly special for me because the special collections department of the library just happened to have a book I’d particularly wanted to get my hands on for some time.
Vesalius’ anatomical masterpiece, the De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem.
