25 Greatest Science Books of All-Time – Discover Magazine – science news articles online technology magazine articles 25 Greatest Science Books of All-Time

25 Greatest Science Books of All-Time – Discover Magazine – science news articles online technology magazine articles 25 Greatest Science Books of All-Time:
In 1543, the same year that Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus appeared, anatomist Andreas Vesalius published the world’s first comprehensive illustrated anatomy textbook. For centuries, anatomists had dissected the human body according to instructions spelled out by ancient Greek texts. Vesalius dispensed with that dusty methodology and conducted his own dissections, reporting findings that departed from the ancients’ on numerous points of anatomy. The hundreds of illustrations, many rendered in meticulous detail by students of Titian’s studio, are ravishing.

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some good ones.