RETHINKING VESALIUS. New Answers to Old Questions - V. Nutton (CSMBR Pisa)

The last 15 years have seen many new discoveries about Andreas Vesalius, the great renaissance anatomist, and his De humani corporis fabrica. They have included the discoveries of two sets of annotations that he made to his writings on anatomy as well as many details of his family and his early life.
In this talk, Vivian Nutton explores some of the consequences of these discoveries for our understanding of Vesalius and his Fabrica from his time in Paris in the in the 1530s right through until the last years of his career as royal physician.