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Andreas Vesalius, also called Andries van Wesel, studied anatomy during the sixteenth century in Europe. Throughout his career, Vesalius dissected numerous human cadavers, and took detailed notes and drawings of the human anatomy. Compiling his research, Vesalius published an anatomy work titled De humani corporis fabrica libri septem ("On the fabric of the human body in seven books"). The Fabrica included illustrations of male and female anatomy. It also included diagrams of uteruses with intact fetuses. Vesalius was one of the first physicians to accurately record and illustrate human anatomy based on his findings from autopsies and dissections, which led to improved understanding of the human body and enhanced surgery techniques.

On 31 December 1514, Vesalius was born to Isabella Crabbe and Anders van Wesel in Brussels, Duchy of Brabant, later known as Brussels, Belgium. Vesalius's father served as an apothecary to Maximilian I, the Holy Roman Emperor, and later served Maximilian I's successor, Charles V, as a valet de chambre. Vesalius studied medicinal texts in his fami

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Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)

c.1540, Andreas Vesalius, Flemish anatomist and doctor ©Vesalius was a Flemish-born anatomist whose dissections of the human body helped to correct misconceptions dating from ancient times.

Andreas Vesalius was born on 31 December 1514 in Brussels, Belgium, then part of the Holy Roman Empire. He came from a family of physicians and both his father and grandfather had served the holy Roman emperor. Vesalius studied medicine in Paris but was forced to leave before completing his degree when the Holy Roman Empire declared war on France. He then studied at the University of Louvain, and then moved to Padua to study for his doctorate. Upon completion in 1537 he was immediately offered the chair of surgery and anatomy.

Surgery and anatomy were then considered of little importance in comparison to the other branches of medicine. However, Vesalius believed that surgery had to be grounded in anatomy. Unusually, he always performed dissections himself and produced anatomical charts of the blood and nervous systems as a reference aid for his students,

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Andreas Vesalius 1514-1564

Andreas Vesalius was born in Brussels on December 31, 1514. After having spent some disappointing years at the Universities of Louvain and Paris, he graduated as Doctor of Medicine in Padua on December 5, 1537. The next day he was appointed as a teacher of both human anatomy and surgery. During the 6 years he held this chair, Vesalius engaged in impressive academic activities and published three masterly anatomic books: Tabulae Anatomicae Sex, De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem, and Epitome. The last two works contain anatomic woodcuts of incomparable artistic quality by Titian's pupils (by Stefan v. Calcar in particular). In 1544, at the age of 28, Vesalius gave up his chair and took up service as a court physician, first with Emperor Charles V and later with his son, Philip II of Spain. He died in 1564 on the small Greek island of Zante on return from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The gist of Vesalius' teaching was his conviction that valid anatomic knowledge could be gained only through dissection of the human corpse and not through the stud