SUGITA, Genpaku (杉田 玄白) (1733 – 1817)
1733 – 1817
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1774 CE
#6835
Kaitai Shinsho (解体新書 Kyūjitai: 解體新書,(Anatomical Tables). A translation of Johan Adam Kulmus's Ontleedkundige Tafelen by Sugita Genpaku.
The first translation of any Western medical text into Japanese. "Kaitai Shinsho represented the beginning of two epoch-making developments. First and most directly Gempaku's work set in motion the modern transformati…
1969 CE
#7046