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The Birth of Mankind: Otherwise Named, The Woman's Book Newly Set forth, Corrected, and Augmented. Whose Contents Ye May Read in the Table of the Book, and Most Plainly in the Prologue

This edition of The Birth of Mankind entailed a research effort equivalent to that of two or more outputs, because its completion required an extensive series of investigations, including:

•collation of more than 20 editions

•analysis of its relationship to:

o Vesalius’s De Fabrica (in Latin)

o Rösslin’s Rosengarten (in 1513 German)

o 6c Muscio manuscripts

o works by Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen

o medieval European and Arabic medicine

•biographical work on the book’s previously unknown translators

•researching developments in medical herbalism

•early book-trade research

•producing the Introduction, annotations, Medical Glossary and 14 appendices to present the results of this research