The nervous system of the human body. Engraving by J. Wandelaar, 1726, after a woodcut, 1543.

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[1725]
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33659i
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In this 1725 edition of Vesalius's works, H. Boerhaave collaborated with his former pupil at Leiden, B. S. Albinus. The woodcut illustrations originally published by Vesalius were engraved on copper plates by Jan Wandelaar. It marks the beginning of a long association of Albinus with Wandelaar, lasting until the artist and engraver's death in 1759. Albinus employed Wandelaar for his own illustrated works, the Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani (Leiden 1747) being the best known, and for his edition of the anatomical plates of B. Eustachius (Leiden 1744), which had been produced in the sixteenth century but were only first fully published in Rome in 1714 by G. M. Lancisi. Albinus also brought out editions of the works of Harvey (1736) and Fabricius ab Acquapendente (1737)

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[Leiden] : [Apud Joannem du Vivie et Joh. & Herm Verbeek], [1725]

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1 print : engraving ; platemark 43.1 x 23.2 cm

Lettering

Bears page no. : 391; plate no.

References note

H. Cushing, A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius, 2nd ed., Hamden, Conn. and London 1962, VI.D.-8
J. B. de C. M. Saunders and C. D. O'Malley, The illustrations from the works of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, Cleveland and New York 1950, pp. 220-223, pl. 82
Hendrik Punt, Bernard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770). On "human nature", Amsterdam 1983, p. 5

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Wellcome Collection 33659i

Reproduction note

This figure was originally published as a woodcut illustration to Andreas Vesalius's Epitome, Basel 1543

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