Volcher Coiter, Externarum et internarum principalium humani corporis partium tabulae, Nuremberg: in off. Theodorici Gerlatzeni, 1573, fig. 1, intaglio, 54.9 x 30.1 cm, N*.3.17 (B), Thomas Lorkyn’s (c. 1528-1591) copy.

Volcher Coiter (1534-1576) had studied at several universities, including Bologna, where he was taught by Ulisse Aldrovandi, who encouraged him to study the development of the chick, which is included in this volume. Coiter paid homage to Vesalius as perfecting the art of anatomy by copying an image of the Fabrica, but he was also interested in development and the process of ossification. This is reflected in his study of this skeleton of a six-month-old child, drawn by Coiter himself (VCD).