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Andreas Vesalius - Anatomy/Anatomist.
He was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1514.
He studied at the University in London from 1528-1533.
He made discoveries in the area of anatomy.
He went to great lengths to steal a skeleton.
Piece by piece he stole the skeleton of a criminal and brought it into the city - he boiled the bones and put them together.
Vesalius was able to prove Galen’s theories about anatomy wrong.
He performed dissections for students, he did these himself rather than observing from a chair.
He proved the human jaw had one vine bit two and the liver had two iebes not 5.
Vesalius also proved Galen wrong about blood.
Galen said it poised through tiny holes in the septum of the heart.
He published his discoveries and has famous artists to draw accurate pictures of humans and anatomy.
This illustrations were labelled with letters, they were interleaved and easy to learn from.
Vesalius published his work in 3 publications.
1539, letters on venesection - through dissection and anatomical drawings he showed the way in which veins connected in the body.
1538, - Tabulae sex - 6 large sheets of anatomical drawings - these drawings he showed Galen’s 5-sided liver and his 2 lobed liver.
1543 - The fabric of the human body.
His greatest publications.
Comprehensive study of human anatomy with detailed illustrations.
Diagrams labelled with letters.
Work published - widely distributed, improved medical knowledge/understand.
Not everyone agreed with Vesalius method of findings.
