The story of Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564), the most famous of all anatomists, has been profoundly changed by two recent discoveries and the publication of a major survey. The appearance of Vesalius’ annotated copy of the 1555 edition of the Fabrica showed that he had planned a further edition of his great work, but it was never published. A 2012 article discussed the annotations in detail, and the most significant changes were translated in the 2014 Karger English translation of the Fabrica. Similar annotations reveal his plans for a second edition of his Institutiones, a student guide to anatomy that he published in 1538. His revision was left incomplete when he switched his attention to the Fabrica. An English version of the Institutiones appeared in 2017, along with a detailed list of the Vesalian revisions. The 2018 census of copies of the Fabrica, by contrast, shows how his book was received by contemporaries and by later owners, challenging many previous suppositions about how the great book was read.