How “Gray’s Anatomy,” a book of drawings featuring blood vessels, muscles, the nervous system and other squeamish things, came to be one of the world’s most widely read books ...

Scalpel in hand, book in front of me, I paused. I was raised by an English professor, who instilled in me a near-holy regard for books. And "Gray's Anatomy" is an incredibly beautiful book.

On this day Born 1879: Leon Trotsky, author of 'A History of the Russian Revolution' Died 1890: Carlo Collodi, author of 'The Adventures of Pinocchio'Gray's Anatomy is more than a book; it is an ...

But Gray's Anatomy is also the world's best-known medical textbook, which was an instant success in 1858 and is still in print and in use 150 years and 39 editions later.

Earlier editions were called 'Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical' and 'Gray's Anatomy: Descriptive and Applied', but the book's name is commonly shortened to 'Gray's Anatomy'.

Gray's Anatomy Spalding Gray, Author Vintage Books USA $12 (96p) ISBN 978-0-679-75178-6 ...

Gray's scepticism about human nature and all the dreams of Enlightenment – socialist, capitalist and secularist alike – is a vital corrective to Utopians of all sorts.

The Making of Mr. Gray’s Anatomy: Bodies, Books, Fortunes and Fame Ruth Richardson, . . Oxford Univ., $29.95 (322pp) ISBN 978-0-19-955299-3 ...