The Illustrations from the Works of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels Collectors have paid many thousands

Collectors have paid many thousands of dollars for one of Stradivari's violins

from primitive rattles and bull-roarers to the electric organ

Over ninety years after its initial publication

definitions of mathematical terms

The most influential work of its kind ever written

The Illustrations from the Works of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels Collectors have paid many thousandsThe works of Andreas Vesalius (15141564) have long been regarded among the great treasures of the Renaissance. Published as medical books while he was teaching anatomy and dissection at the University of Padua, they include the Tabulae Sex (1538), intended as an aid to students; the magnificently illustrated De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543), and the companion volume, the Epitome (1543). Individually, these books are milestones in the history of