Detail View: Ars Anatomica: De Colli Cervicisue Vertebris. Caput XV. Figs.I-XI

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0041103
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Df.1.52
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Edinburgh University Library
Catalogue Number: 
394
Title: 
De Colli Cervicisue Vertebris. Caput XV. Figs.I-XI
Translated Title: 
The vertebrae of the neck, Chapter 15. Figs:1-11
Creator: 
Oporinus, Johannes (b.1507, d.1568)
Creator Role: 
Printer
Creator: 
Vesalius, Andreas (b.1514, d.1564)
Creator Role: 
Author
Associate Creator: 
Calcar, Jan Stefan van (b.1499, d.1546-1560)
Associate Creator Name: 
Calcar, Jan Stefan van
Associate Creator Dates: 
b.1499, d.1546-1560
Associate Creator Role: 
Designer
Date: 
1543
Description: 
Figures one to eleven on this plate show views of the different vertebrae. The first image (Prima) is of the skull base showing the articulations with (Secunda, tertia, quarta) the atlas (three views, antero-superior, postero-superior, postero-inferior). The next vertebra, descending the neck, is in images Quinta Sexta, Septima; it is the axis, the second cervical vertebra. Images Octava and Nona are of the third cervical vertebra.
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Print
Measurement: 
42.5 x 28.5cm (1' 4 3/4" x 11 1/4")
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Ink
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Paper
Technique: 
Woodcut
Subject Category: 
Anatomy
Subject Category: 
Human Body
Subject Category: 
Skeleton
Reference: 
Bird 2339; Cushing VI.A.-I,
Related Work Title: 
De humani corporis fabrica libri septem
Related Work Page No: 
page 060
Related Work Creator: 
Vesalius, Andreas
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De Colli Cervicisue Vertebris. Caput XV. Figs.I-XI
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