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Nature 393, 421 (4 June 1998) | doi:10.1038/30867
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Vesalius's veracity
Martin Kemp1
Abstract
The sixteenth-century anatomist Vesalius debunked many of the doctrines of the Greek physician Galen. Vesalius chose his illustrations carefully to act as powerful tools in proving the accuracy of his scientific observations.
Showing the tools of the trade was a long-standing practice in the illustration of surgical texts, not least in the manuscript tradition that looked towards Islamic sources. With the rise of naturalistic illustration, particularly in the great picture-books of the human and natural sciences in the sixteenth century, the equipment could be displayed with a new conviction.
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