by ronblumenfeld | Oct 17, 2021 | History
These days, illustrated novels are hard to come by, continuing a hundred-year trend. In the early 20th century, novelists began to feel that their prose did not require any help from pictures. And observers of the current literary scene feel that visual media –...
by ronblumenfeld | Aug 29, 2021 | History
In 1543, Andreas Vesalius, a 28-year-old professor at the University of Padua medical school, published a textbook of anatomy unlike any that had come before—revolutionary for its careful detail, exquisite illustrations, and enlightened design as a reference tool. But...
by ronblumenfeld | Aug 28, 2021 | History
In my novel, “The King’s Anatomist,” the Greek physician Galen serves as a foil for the triumph of Andreas Vesalius; it was Galen’s anatomical findings that Vesalius overturned thirteen centuries after Galen’s death. But don’t be left with the impression that Galen...
