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Chapters
• The Initials Letters of the Anatomical Treatise, De Humani Corporis Fabrica, of Vesalius (Lambert)
• Marginal Notes by the printer of the Icones (Wiegand)
  • Discover of the wood blocks
  • Wandering of the wood blocks
  • The cutting of the wood blocks
  • John Stephen of Calcar and the title page
  • The landscape background of th emuscle figures
  • The drawings of the title page
• What about the Fabrica of Vesalius? (Ivins, Jr.)
  • Introduction
  • The Background
    1. The continuity of Italian culture
    2. Importance of making duplicable pictorial records in science
    3. Outline of the development of scientific book illustration
    4. Early illustrated medical books
    5. Unillustrated medical books of the period
    6. Fame of the Fabrica dependent upon its illustrations
  • The Fabrica's place in the development of anatomical knowledge
  • Vesalius, the man
  • The Tabulae Sex
  • Günther's Institutionum
  • The Venesection Letter
  • The Fabricasent to Basel
  • Vesalius' anatomical knowledge
  • Why was the Fabrica sent to Basel?
  • After the Fabrica
  • The Icones of 1934
  • John Stephen
  • The problem
  • Roth's quandary
  • The artist's problem
  • The deciding factor
  • The final question
  • Conculsion
• Appendix I. Vesalius' professorship
• Appendix II. Vasari, van Mander, and Dr. Singer
• Appendix III. A note on the drawings
  • Introductory remarks
  • The title page
  • The Stockholm drawing
  • The Glasgow drawings
  • The Crummer drawing

Illustrations
• Initials letters from Vesalius, De fabrica, 1543 and 1555, throughout the text
• (Surgical Instruments)
• Scene at Monselice
• Scene near Abano, Southwest of Padua
• Background of muscle figures
• Female figure showing uterus, Johannes de Kethan, Fasciculo de medicina..., Venice, 1493
• Muscle figure, Berengario da Carpi, Commentaria...super anatomia Mundini..., Bologna, 1521
• Papaver, Pseudo Apuleius, Herbarium, Rome, 1483-1484
• Papaver magsamen, Hortus sanitatis Deutsch, Mainz, 1485
• Papaver rubrum, Othon Brunfels, Herbarum vivae eicones..., Strassburg, 1536
• Papaver errati, Leonhard Fuchs, De historia stirpium..., Basel, 1542
• Basel view of cranium, Galen, Opera..., Basel, 1536
• Head partially dissected, Johann Dryander, Anatomiae..., Marburg, 1537
• Muscles of the upper arm, Canano, Musculorum humani corporis... dissecto..., [Ferrara, 1541 (?)]
• Portal circulation, Charles Estienne, De dissectione partium corporis..., Paris, 1545
• Vascular system, Bartholomaeus Eustachius, Tabulae anatomicae..., Rome, 1714
• Title page, Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica, Basel, 1543, from Vesalius, Icones, New York and Munich, 1934
• The Stockholm drawing of the title page
• The Glasgow drawing of the title page
• Details of Glasgow drawing
• Details of title page in reverse
• The Crummer drawing of the title page
• Detail of Crummer drawing
• Detail of title page in reverse