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Celebrating Vesalius the anatomist – 500 years on

17th September 201422nd December 2015 Rare Books

My name is Catherine Booth and I’m the International Collections Science Curator, doing a guest blog here because it partly relates to a book in the Rare Book Collections. 2014 is the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andreas Vesalius, recognised as the founder of modern anatomy.  His reputation was earned because of his astonishing […]

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