Detail View: Ars Anatomica: Arteria magna

Work Record ID: 
0041551
Shelfmark: 
Az.1.10
Holding Institution: 
Glasgow University Library
Catalogue Number: 
755
Title: 
Arteria magna, AORTE, HAORTI ex sinistro cordis sinu oriens, et vitalem spiritum toti corpori deferens, naturalemque calorem per contractionem et dilationem temperans.
Title Notes: 
The title gives the name of the aorta in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. But see Description below.
Translated Title: 
The great artery, AORTE, Haorti, arising from the left chamber of the heart and distributing the vital spirit to the whole body and modulating the natural heat by its contraction and dilatation.
Creator: 
Calcar, Jan Stefan van (b.1499, d.1546-1560)
Creator Role: 
Publisher
Creator: 
Vitali, Bernardino (active 1494-1539)
Creator Role: 
Printer
Creator: 
Vesalius, Andreas (b.1514, d.1564)
Creator Role: 
Author
Associate Creator: 
Vitali, Bernardino (active 1494-1539)
Associate Creator Name: 
Vitali, Bernardino
Associate Creator Dates: 
active 1494-1539
Associate Creator Role: 
Printer
Date: 
1538
Description: 
One of 6 broadsides, known collectively as the Tabulae Anatomicae Sex. Vesalius himself designed the anatomical illustrations on this sheet. The following is summarised from Singer & Rabin, 1946, qv. The Hebrew characters spell HA-NABHUBH and not HA-ORTI. The names printed in Hebrew characters have been erroneously exchanged between Tabulae II and III. However, HA-ORTI is appropriate to aorta. See also title to Tabula II. The description of the function of the aorta was the standard one before the discovery of the circulation of the blood. Its expansion and contraction were believed to be active; they are, in fact, produced by the ejection of blood into the aorta by contraction of the left ventricle of the heart.
Work Type: 
Print
Material: 
Ink
Material: 
Paper
Technique: 
Woodcut
Subject Category: 
Anatomy
Subject Category: 
Human Body
Reference: 
Cushing II.-I[A]; Saunders and O'Malley 1950, plate 89,
Related Work Title: 
Tabulae Anatomicae Sex
Related Work Creator: 
Vesalius, Andreas
Related Work Article: 
Az.1.10
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