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Last Name Geminus

Given Name Thomas Lionel Cust.

alt. Names T. L. C. G. ; Thomas Lambrit / Lamberd / Lambert / Thomas Gemini / Gemyne ;

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Year born 1500 ca fl. in Lixhe near Lüttich, Belgium

Year died 1562

Place of death London, England, UK

Father's occupation

Relatives brother Jasper Lambrit

Education taught by Gerhard Mercator ?

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for copied Vesalius de Fabrica; Thomas Raynalde: Byrthe of Mankynde ?; T. Geminus: Morysse and Damashin renewed...London 1548; Nova Descriptio Hispaniae, 1555; Britanniae Insulae... nova descriptio, 1555; printed Leonard Digges: Prognostication of Right Good Effect, 1555 & Boke named Tectonicon, 1562

Patronage Henry VIII.; Edward VI ;

Collaborators

Techniques anatomical copperplate engraving ;

Sample(s) http://www.arsanatomica.lib.ed.ac.uk/geminus.html; http://collections.vam.ac.uk/name/geminus-thomas/1119/ ;

Archival sources

Published sources AKL 51 2006, 255; ThB 13, 1920, 376; Geminus: Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio 1545; Thornton & Reeves 1983: 61. Raynalde: Byrth of mankynde 1545; Geoffrey Keynes: The Anatomy of Thomas Geminus ;

other active as printer, instrument maker & surgeon ; 1540 mentioned in London ; Leeds. See: DT Bird: illust anat atlases J. Aud. vis. Media Med 1987, 10: 90-6 ;

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