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"Bookfind of the century" sells for $2.23 million
New Atlas dot com ^ | February 02, 2024 | Mike Hanlon

Posted on 02/21/2024 8:37:41 PM PST by SunkenCiv

Purchased cheaply at auction as a second edition with extensive Latin "marginalia" by an unknown hand, this copy of "De humani corporis fabrica" was found to have been Andreas Vesalius' personal copy, and the thousands of autograph notes were his revisions for a third edition that never saw publication, offering rare insight into the mind of one of history's most important scientists and teachers.

Purchased cheaply at auction as a second edition with extensive Latin "marginalia" by an unknown hand, this copy of "De humani corporis fabrica" was found to have been Andreas Vesalius' personal copy, and the thousands of autograph notes were his revisions for a third edition that never saw publication, offering rare insight into the mind of one of history's most important scientists and teachers.

In 2007 a retired Canadian doctor paid €13,200 (US$14,256) for a well-used second edition of Andreas Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica (1555), one of the most influential books in history. Only 150 copies are known. The book had been in the hands of collectors for more than four centuries and had extensive latin annotations by an unknown hand...

When it was published in 1543, Vesalius' illustrated work advanced anatomy 1,300 years, superseding Galen's work (circa 150 CE) as the primary reference for physicians across Europe...

That his magnum opus was published prior to his thirtieth birthday speaks volumes for the genius of Vesalius (1514 - 1564), and although his work is now regarded as the foundation of modern human anatomy, he faced some vehement opposition from the medical establishment, as he was questioning everything that came before. Skepticism is now part of the scientific method, but at that time, it was not.

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To: MileHi
If they insist, I read it as Before the Christian Era and Christian Era.

In that system, wouldn't the Christian era start at the resurrection?

21 posted on 02/22/2024 5:56:03 AM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: SunkenCiv
although his work is now regarded as the foundation of modern human anatomy, he faced some vehement opposition from the medical establishment, as he was questioning everything that came before.

The sure-fire way to get the treatment since time immemorial.

Skepticism is now part of the scientific method, but at that time, it was not.

Skepticism has always been a part of the *scientific* method. The Establishment way, well now that's different. If any establishment did that, there goes the establishment: the safety and security of settled dogma, the fine reputations, the personality cults, the positions of authority, the grants. The power.

When Moses saw the burning bush. He instinctively wanted to understand *why* it wasn't burning itself out.

When God saw Moses' response was when the conversation got going. Not before.

I mention these details of the text because the word translated as "why" is madua [מַדּוּעַ], not the general word for "why", which is lamah [לָֽמָּה], "for what?".

The root of madua is yada, to know, the same from which science (מַדָּע mada) is derived.

Klein's:

מַדְּוּעַ adv. why? wherefore? [Contraction of מַה יָּדוּעַ (= what is known? i.e. ‘for what reason’). cp. Aram. מִדַּעַם (= something), which is contracted from מִדַּע and מָא, lit. ‘something knowable’.]
Moses -- now there was a man not afraid of Ys, who could lead the people out of Egypt, the house of bondage of the establishment mindset.

"Bookfind of the century"

22 posted on 02/22/2024 6:24:04 AM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: SunkenCiv

Fascinating! And the way it was discerned... a blessing!


23 posted on 02/22/2024 6:32:11 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde

I wouldn’t mind doing some medieval book-flipping if it went like this. :^)


24 posted on 02/22/2024 9:26:30 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: null and void

You have a point


25 posted on 02/22/2024 9:34:54 AM PST by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Modern society is reverting to that time before skepticism became pat of Scientific thought. No skepticism allowed for Climate Change insanity or for COVID decrees.


26 posted on 02/22/2024 1:27:43 PM PST by ThanhPhero
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To: MileHi
You have a point

Yep. From my home page:

On the end times:

Has the Biblical Goliath Been Found? ^
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On News/Activism ^ 11/10/2005 7:07:40 AM PST · 54 of 114 ^

Which brings me to one of my hobby horses:

We already agree that our calendar is wrong, off by anywhere from 2 to 16 years, depending on who's doing the reckoning, and further in error because of the absence of a year zero.

The more fundamental point is that God did not intend us to mark His years by the birth of Jesus.

If He had intended this we would have a Biblical fixing of the date.

Further, the day of Jesus' birth is unremarkable as all men are born.

However, very few return from the dead, that event is remarkable, and it is the defining moment of Christianity, the very moment of proof that his sacrifice was not in vain. And the Bible gives a precise reference for when this happened!

Clearly this was the date the calendar was supposed to start!

For extra points, this makes our calendar off by anywhere from 17 to 30 years. That makes this something like Holy Year 1988 to Holy Year 1975, giving us anywhere from 12 to 25 years to get our affairs in order before the real end of the millennium...

(I haven't updated the current year range...)
27 posted on 02/22/2024 3:59:45 PM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: Red Badger

Usually written by idiots that failed the course.


28 posted on 02/22/2024 4:01:40 PM PST by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I say it was overvalued. Fine the sellers.


29 posted on 02/22/2024 4:03:37 PM PST by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: null and void

Interesting.

In any case, I reject the “common era” label.


30 posted on 02/22/2024 4:25:42 PM PST by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: MileHi
Me too, it's so, so common...
31 posted on 02/22/2024 5:33:08 PM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: smokingfrog

Well, you are write about part of it at least. Skepticism is not part of “the Science.”


32 posted on 02/22/2024 6:42:22 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Fledermaus

:^)


33 posted on 02/22/2024 9:32:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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