Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Juan Valverde

  • Juan Valdeverde de Amusco (1525–1588)

    In the days before intellectual property laws (and when plagiarism was sometimes viewed as a compliment to the author) Juan Valverde of Spain wrote a book on anatomy so successful that it went through sixteen editions in four languages and its illustrations remain popular to this day. It was composed in 1556 and titled Anatomia…