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Juan de Valverde (ca. 1525-ca. 1587)

La anatomia del corpo umano. Vinetia: nella stamperia Giunti, 1586. Fulltext online

Valverde, La anatomia del corpo umano, p 108
Juan de Valverde, La anatomia del corpo umano. Lungs and thoracic cavity.
Valverde, La anatomia del corpo umano, p 63v
Juan de Valverde, La anatomia del corpo umano. This text accompanies the illustration below.
Valverde, La anatomia del corpo umano, p 64
Juan de Valverde, La anatomia del corpo umano.
Valverde, La anatomia del corpo umano, preface
Juan de Valverde. La anatomia del corpo umano. A biography of the author found in the preface.

A pupil of Realdo Columbo, a noted physician at Padua University who studied under Vesalius, Juan de Valverde became the most important anatomist in Spain during his lifetime. When his work was translated into Italian and Latin it became even better known, even though most of the drawings were taken from Vesalius and most of the text was from Fabricius.

These images are all copper engravings derived from the Vesalius corpus.

next author: Fabricius, ab Aquapendente (ca. 1533-1619).