Timeline: Technologies
of Anatomical Representation
1300s Woodcut printing brought from
China to Europe, used to print textiles
1400s Paper becomes available in
Western Europe
1423 Earliest known European woodcut
print on paper
1452 Copperplate engraving invented
1450s Moveable type invented; Gutenberg
Bible printed (1455)
1491 First illustrated printed medical
book published in Venice, Johannes de Ketham, Fasciculus Medicinae
1543 First profusely illustrated
anatomy, Vesalius, De Humani Corporis Fabrica
1620s First multi-color printed illustrations
1630s Etching invented
1642 Mezzotint invented by Ludwig
von Siegen, a German army colonel
1740s Mezzotint color printing method
perfected
1780s Thomas Bewick develops modern
technique of wood engraving
1798 Lithography invented in Solnhofen,
Germany by Alois Senefelder
1837 Daguerre invents first practical
photographic method
1895 Roentgen demonstrates x-ray
imaging
More Information on Technologies
of Anatomical Representation |