Andreas talks about the evolution of writing down knowledge and visual representation in books. Odin Essers, Curator of Maastricht University’s Special Collections shows us one volume of the original Vesalius print book from 1725. It contains beautiful anatomic drawings and illustrations.

The location in this video is the newest Digital Lab at Randwyck Library. The video is recorded in this room, because the anatomy room is called the Vesalius Room. Here you can find a lot of interesting anatomy objects for your study and research and one volume of the original Vesalius from our Special Collections. Andreas inspires us to use the Vesalius 3D scanner where you can discover every detail of a human body. Feel free to visit this room in the University Library Randwyck!

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The (digitised) book

For those interested in exploring this book, we present a fully digitised copy on our Digital Collections website.

The print book Volume 2 is currently on display in the Vesalius room in the Randwyck Library. Both volumes are available for education and research (reference only). Below you find the links to Worldcat via our LibSearch.

The series

In the series Talking about books, enthusiastic readers and authors promote their favourite book. Watch the video’s in this series and discover books you did not yet know of. Every 6 to 8 weeks, a new video will be uploaded to the UM Library YouTube channel.

Are you a student, staff member, teacher or researcher at UM and do you want to talk about your favourite book in the UM Library collection? Or do you know someone from the UM community who would like to contribute to the series? Let us know!