The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius ― A Worldwide Descriptive Census, Ownership, and Annotations of the 1543 and 1555 Editions

The current work provides bibliographic information, a worldwide census, ownership records, and a description of the annotations in all the copies of Vesalius’ Fabrica. It reconstructs the travels of the Fabrica across the globe since 1543 and its annotated readership.

Daniel Margocsy , (PhD Harvard, 2009), is University Lecturer at the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He is author of Commercial Visions: Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014). Mark Somos (PhD Harvard, 2007; PhD Lugd. Bat., 2014) is Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg), Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Sussex Law School, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Grotiana.Stephen N. Joffe, MBBCh (1967), MD (1976), was a Professor of Surgery at University of Cincinnati. He has published multiple articles and textbooks on lasers in medicine and early anatomists.