The book, titled De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, or On the Fabric of the Human Body in Seven Books, which the auction house calls “the greatest anatomical atlas of the Renaissance and a ...

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 ...

In his 1863 book Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature, Thomas Henry Huxley raised hell by arguing that humans weren’t special. Like other animals, he said, humans are a byproduct of evolution ...

The film discusses the human skeleton and muscles through the perspective of a college student explaining to his younger brother. It covers the structure and function of bones, including their ...

ANATOMY Exploring the Human Body By Phaidon Editors Illustrated. 343 pp. Phaidon. $59.95. BODY The Photography Book By Nathalie Herschdorfer Illustrated. 431 pp. Thames & Hudson. $65.

Informed by these experiences, Vesalius decided to break with ancient tradition when he began to write an anatomical textbook in the mid-15 th century. Nearly every anatomy book before his was ...