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(Norman Anatomy Series. No. 1.) By Andreas Vesalius. Translated by William Frank Richardson, in collaboration with John Burd Carman. 416 pp., illustrated. San Francisco, Norman, 1998. $225. ISBN 0-930405-73-0.

This book, by Andreas Vesalius, was first published in 1543. It is well known to gross anatomists and medical historians as the first scientifically based textbook on human anatomy. Along with Copernicus's book that describes the heliocentric universe, it is recognized as one of the two major scientific treatises of the early Renaissance. Vesalius's book was published in Latin in 1543 but has never before been translated into English. The translator and his collaborator have produced a superb translation that is readable and that captures the sense of change that was occurring in science in this era.

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