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Author Debschitz, Uta von, author

Title Fritz Kahn / Uta von Debschitz & Thilo von Debschitz ; foreword by Steven Heller ; English translation, Shaun Whitehouse, for Grapevine Publishing Services, Matt Fentem, Pedro Lopez ; German translation, Ursula Wulfekamp, for Grapevine Publishing Services, French Translation, Wolf Fruhtrunk
Published Köln : Taschen, [2013]
©2013

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Description 390 pages : chiefly illustrations (some colour) ; 33 cm
regular print
Contents Foreword -- The factories of the human body -- Die Fabriken des menschlichen Körpers -- Les fabriques du corps humain -- Introduction -- Glimpses of Fritz Kahn's pictorial world -- Einblicke in Fritz Kahns Bilderwelten -- Apergus des mondes d'images de Fritz Kahn -- Illustrations -- Journey into one's own body -- Reise in den eigenen Körper : Voyage dans notre propre corps -- The human body -- Journey through the human body -- The chemistry of life -- The skeleton -- The Musculature -- The circulatory system -- Respiration -- Man as industrial palace -- Digestion -- Nutrition -- Body temperature -- The nervous system -- The sensory organs -- Skin and hair -- Sexuality -- Medicine -- Nature -- Living things -- The earth -- The heavens -- The atom -- Nature and culture -- Articles -- Reports from modern life -- Reportagen aus dem modernen Leben -- Reportages sur la vie moderne -- Transcriptions -- Einstein Sonata (Quasi una fantasia) -- Einstein-Sonate (Quasi una fantasia) -- Sonate Einstein (Quasi una fantasia) -- Fairy-tale journey on the Bloodstream -- Märchenreise auf dem Blutstrom -- Voyage feerique sur le courant sanguin -- It's a Miracle we live longer -- Than two minutes -- Es ist ein Wunder, dass wir länger als zwei Minuten leben -- Que Nous Vivions Plus de Deux minutes est un pur miracle -- Originals -- Excerpts from Fritz Kahn's Publications -- Appendix -- Biography -- Biografie -- Biographie -- Œuvre -- Image index -- Authors -- Acknowledgments
Summary Fritz Kahn was a German doctor, educator, popular science writer and information graphics pioneer whose brilliant work has all but fallen into oblivion. Natural science buffs, graphics professionals and anyone interested in the visual expression of ideas will be fascinated by this monograph featuring Kahn's greatest achievements. -- back cover
Notes First published by Springer, 2009, ISBN 9783211991817
Slightly revised new edition
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 381)
Notes Parallel text in English, German, and French
Subject Kahn, Fritz, 1888-1968.
Scientific illustration -- Germany.
Scientific illustrators -- Germany.
Scientific illustration.
Scientists -- Germany -- Biography.
Visual communication in science -- Germany.
Anatomy, Artistic -- history.
Anatomy, Artistic.
Anatomy, Artistic -- history.
History, 20th Century.
Human Body.
Medicine in the Arts.
Anatomy.
Medical Illustration -- history.
Physicians -- history.
Physiology.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Author Debschitz, Thilo von, author
Fentem, Matt, translator
Fruhtrunk, Wolfgang, translator
Kahn, Fritz, 1888-1968, artist
Lopez, Pedro, translator
Whitehouse, Shaun, translator
Wulfekamp, Ursula, translator
Grapevine Publishing Services
LC no. 2016387394
ISBN 3836548402 (hardback)
9783836548403 (hardback)