A Prelude to Modern Science

Part I. Character and Purpose of the Tabulae: 1. The Vesalian problem; 2. Advent of the graphic method; 3. The art of the Tabulae; Part II. Vesalius and the schools of Louvain and Paris: 1. Early years of Vesalius; 2. Anatomy at Paris; 3. Charles Estienne; 4. Vesalius at Paris; 5. Vesalius returns to Louvain; 6. Anatomical equipment of Vesalius in 1537; Part III. Italian Predecessors of Vesalius: 1. Early Italian Humanist anatomists; 2. Early Italian illustrated anatomies; 3. Massa (c.1480–1569); Part IV. Galenic Physiology and its Latin Presentation: 1. Basic principle of Galenic physiology; 2. The Galenic physiological scheme; Part V. Certain Anatomica Elements in the Tabulae: 1. Reliance of Vesalius on animal anatomy; 2. Rete mitabile; 3. Position and form of the heart; 4. Branches of aortic arch; 5. Superior vena cava; 6. Caval system; 7. Posterior intercostal vessels; 8. Relative levels of kidneys and of renal vessels; 9. Five equal lobes of liver; 10. Homologies of generative organs of the two sexes; 11. Prostate gland; 12. Asymmetry of spermatic veins; 13. Seven segments of sternum; Part VI. Renaissance Anatomical Vocabulary: 1. General sources of the vocabulary; 2. Direct sources of the 'modern' vocabulary; 3. Anatomical incunabula; 4. Contributions to the vocabulary from Renaissance antomies; Part VII. Semitic elements in the Tabulae: 1. Introduction; 2. History of Arabic anatomical nomenclature; 3. Passage of Arabic anatomical nomenclature to Latin West; 4. The Hebrew elements in the Renaissance anatomical vocabulary; 5. Did Vesalius know Arabic and Hebrew?; 6. General character of Medieval Hebrew; 9. Hebraic corruptions in the Tabulae; 10. General character of the Arabic vocabulary in the Tabulae; 11. Hebraized Romace terms in the Tabulae; Part VIII. Translation and Commentary; Part IX. General Index; Part X. Greek Index; Part XI. Arabic Index; Part XXII. Hebrew index; Plates.