“Opera Omnia Anatomica et Chirurgica” is a late edition of the work “De humani corporis fabrica”, first printed in 1543. Its author, Andreas Vesalius, was a Belgian anatomist and physician, considered one of the founders of modern anatomy. This is his most influential work, one of the most beautiful scientific books of all time, which revolutionized medicine and the health sciences in the 16th century.
The book examines the structure of the human body and provides the first complete description in the history of human anatomy, detailing bones, joints, muscles, the heart, blood vessels, the nervous system, and the organs of the abdomen, thorax, and brain.
A work that modernized not only anatomy but scientific teaching in general, showing medical students that human anatomy could only be learned through the dissection and observation of the human body.