VESALIUS, ANDREAS. 1514-1564.


HENERUS, RENATUS. Fl. 1550. Adversus Iacobi Sylvii Depvlsionvm anatomicarvm calvmnias, pro Andrea Vesalio apologia: in qua præcipuæ totius negotij anatomici pene controuersiæ breuiter explicantur... Venice, 1555. 8vo (159 x 98 mm). Contemporary limp boards. Worming to upper margins affecting headings and a few letters. FIRST EDITION. The first significant published defense of Vesalius against Jacobus Sylvius (Jacques Dubois). "Sylvius was a very popular teacher of anatomy who, unlike many of his contemporaries, was not unwilling to perform his own dissections. His most distinguished student was Andreas Vesalius; but since Sylvius was the arch-Galenist of Paris, wholly confident of Galen's medical omniscience and determined at all costs to defend him against open, critical attack, he became intensely hostile to his former student upon publication of Vesalius's Fabrica (1543)" (DSB 4, p 198). Durling 2264.