A Prelude to Modern Science

Table of Contents

• Part I. Character and Purpose of the Tabulae:
• 1. The Vesalian problem
• 2. Advent of the graphic method
• 3. The art of the Tabulae
• Part II. Vesalius and the schools of Louvain and Paris:
• 1. Early years of Vesalius
• 2. Anatomy at Paris
• 3. Charles Estienne
• 4. Vesalius at Paris
• 5. Vesalius returns to Louvain
• 6. Anatomical equipment of Vesalius in 1537
• Part III. Italian Predecessors of Vesalius:
• 1. Early Italian Humanist anatomists
• 2. Early Italian illustrated anatomies
• 3. Massa (c.1480–1569)
• Part IV. Galenic Physiology and its Latin Presentation:
• 1. Basic principle of Galenic physiology
• 2. The Galenic physiological scheme
• Part V. Certain Anatomica Elements in the Tabulae:
• 1. Reliance of Vesalius on animal anatomy
• 2. Rete mitabile
• 3. Position and form of the heart
• 4. Branches of aortic arch
• 5. Superior vena cava
• 6. Caval system
• 7. Posterior intercostal vessels
• 8. Relative levels of kidneys and of renal vessels
• 9. Five equal lobes of liver
• 10. Homologies of generative organs of the two sexes
• 11. Prostate gland
• 12. Asymmetry of spermatic veins
• 13. Seven segments of sternum
• Part VI. Renaissance Anatomical Vocabulary:
• 1. General sources of the vocabulary
• 2. Direct sources of the 'modern' vocabulary
• 3. Anatomical incunabula
• 4. Contributions to the vocabulary from Renaissance antomies
• Part VII. Semitic elements in the Tabulae:
• 1. Introduction
• 2. History of Arabic anatomical nomenclature
• 3. Passage of Arabic anatomical nomenclature to Latin West
• 4. The Hebrew elements in the Renaissance anatomical vocabulary
• 5. Did Vesalius know Arabic and Hebrew?
• 6. General character of Medieval Hebrew
• 9. Hebraic corruptions in the Tabulae
• 10. General character of the Arabic vocabulary in the Tabulae
• 11. Hebraized Romace terms in the Tabulae
• Part VIII. Translation and Commentary
• Part IX. General Index
• Part X. Greek Index
• Part XI. Arabic Index
• Part XXII. Hebrew index
• Plates.
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