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In 1543 De humani corporis fabrica, the first book on human anatomy, was published and printed in Basel by Andreas Vesalius ( 1514 – 1564 ).
His anatomical reports, based mainly on dissection of monkeys and pigs, remained uncontested until 1543, when printed descriptions and illustrations of human dissections were published in the seminal work De humani corporis fabrica by Andreas Vesalius where Galen's physiological theory was accommodated to these new observations.
Vesalius ' most famous work, De humani corporis fabrica, was greatly influenced by Galenic writing and form.
Since Galen states that he is using observations of monkeys ( human dissection was prohibited ) to give an account of what the body looks like, Vesalius could portray himself as using Galen's approach of description of direct observation to create a record of the exact details of the human body, since he worked in a time when human dissection was allowed.
One of the best known examples of Vesalius ' overturning of Galenism was his demonstration that the interventricular septum of the heart was not permeable, as Galen had taught ( Nat Fac III xv ).
Michael Servetus, using the name " Michel de Villeneuve " during his stay in France, was Vesalius ' fellow student and the best Galenist at the University of Paris, according to Johann Winter von Andernach, who taught both.
It was this access to corpses which allowed the anatomist Vesalius along with Titian's pupil Jan Stephen van Calcar to complete the revolutionary medical / anatomical text De humani corporis fabrica.
Andreas Vesalius ( 1514 – 1564 ) was an author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica, also in 1543.
Andreas Vesalius ( 31 December 1514 – 15 October 1564 ) was a Flemish anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica ( On the Structure of the Human Body ).
Vesalius was born to Andries van Wesele and Isabel Crabbe on 31 December 1514, in Brussels, which was then part of the Habsburg Netherlands.
In 1528 Vesalius entered the University of Leuven ( Pedagogium Castrense ) taking arts, but when his father was appointed as the Valet de Chambre in 1532, he decided to pursue a career in medicine at the University of Paris, where he moved in 1533.
So paramount was the authority of Galen that for the next 1400 years, a succession of anatomists claimed to find these holes until finally Vesalius declared he could not find them.
Other famous examples of Vesalius disproving Galen in particular was his discovery that the lower jaw was only one bone, not two ( which Galen had assumed from animal dissection ) and his proof that blood did not pass through the interatrial septum.
Later that year Vesalius asked Johannes Oporinus to help publish the seven-volume De humani corporis fabrica ( On the fabric of the human body ), a groundbreaking work of human anatomy he dedicated to Charles V. Most believe it was illustrated by Titian's pupil Jan Stephen van Calcar.
Though Vesalius ' work was not the first such work based on actual autopsy, nor even the first work of this era, the production values, highly detailed and intricate plates, and the fact that the artists who produced it were clearly present at the dissections themselves made it into an instant classic.
Vesalius was 30 years old when the first edition of Fabrica was published.
Soon after publication, Vesalius was invited as Imperial physician to the court of Emperor Charles V. He informed the Venetian Senate that he was leaving his post in Padua, which prompted Duke Cosimo I de ' Medici to invite him to move to the expanding university in Pisa, which he turned down.
Vesalius ' work was cleared by the board, but the attacks continued.

Vesalius and Paris
In his dissections of the heart, Vesalius became convinced that Galen's claims of a porous Interventricular septum were false. This fact was previously described by Michael Servetus, fellow of Vesalius, but never reached the public, for it was written down in the " Manuscript of Paris ", in 1546, and just published later in his Christianismi Restitutio ( 1553 ), an heretic book for the Inquisition.
In Paris, his teachers included Sylvius, Fernel and Johann Winter von Andernach, who hailed him with Andrea Vesalius as his most able assistant in dissections.
Some other pupils of Sylvius defended his teaching and work, specially Louis Vasse and Michel de Villeneuve, this later was considered by Johann Winter von Andernach ( colleague and friend of Sylvius ) the best galenist of Paris and second anatomist after Vesalius.
Michel De Villeneuve, fellow student of Vesalius and the best galenist of Paris according to Johann Winter von Andernach, published the anonymous “ ' Dispensarium or Enquiridion ” in 1543, at Lyon with Jean Frellon as editor.
In the 1530s while studying in Paris, Vesalius was accustomed to robbing the Paris graveyards with fellow anatomy pupils.

Vesalius and due
* Vesalius admitted that due to a lack of pregnant cadavers, he was unable to come to a significant understanding of the reproductive organs.
The university flourished in the 16th century due to the presence of famous scholars and professors, such as Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens ( Pope Adrian VI ), Desiderius Erasmus, Johannes Molanus, Joan Lluís Vives, Andreas Vesalius, Ferdinand Verbiest and Gerardus Mercator.

Vesalius and opening
It was in this opening chapter, or book, of De fabrica that Vesalius made several of his strongest claims against Galen's theories and writings which he had put in his anatomy books.

Vesalius and between
However, while Vesalius dared to admit he could not find these holes, he did not dream of disputing Galen on the distribution of blood, and so imagined it distilled through the unbroken partition between the ventricles.
The relationship between Colombo and Vesalius is not entirely clear.
Andreas Vesalius, the father of anatomy, noted the striking similarity between the two while performing anatomic dissections in the sixteenth century.
In the 16th century, Andreas Vesalius and Francesco Piccolomini were the first to distinguish between white matter, the cortex, and the subcortical nuclei in the brain.
The Vesalius curriculum places strong emphasis on providing students with a broad education, reaching beyond artificial boundaries between disciplines.

Vesalius and Holy
In 1564 Vesalius went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
He was appointed physician to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V ; Vesalius had dedicated the work to the ruler, and presented him with the first published copy ( bound in silk of imperial purple, with specially hand-painted illustrations not found in any other copy ).

Vesalius and returned
In 1543, he returned to Padua to take over the position of Andreas Vesalius, who had travelled to Switzerland to oversee the printing of his book De Humani Corporis Fabrica.
When Vesalius returned, he was outraged.

Vesalius and Leuven
Vesalius was the first to publish a treatise, De humani corporis fabrica, that challenged Galen " drawing for drawing " travelling all the way from Leuven to Padua for permission to dissect victims from the gallows without fear of persecution.
Vesalius was a Galenic expert, trained in Leuven, whereas Colombo began his study of anatomy as a surgeon.

Vesalius and .
Galenism's final defeat came from a combination of the negativism of Paracelsus and the constructivism of the Italian Renaissance anatomists, such as Vesalius in the 16th century.
In the 1530s, the Flemish anatomist and physician Andreas Vesalius took on a project to translate many of Galen's Greek texts into Latin.
Seeking to examine critically Galen's methods and outlook, Vesalius turned to human cadaver dissection as a means of verification.
Galen's writings were shown by Vesalius to describe details present in monkeys but not in humans, and he demonstrated Galen's limitations through books and hands-on demonstrations despite fierce opposition from orthodox pro-Galenists such as Jacobus Sylvius.
The examinations of Vesalius also disproved medical theories of Aristotle and Mondino de Liuzzi.
The Lyon edition has commentaries on breathing and blood streaming that correct the work of earlier renowned authors such as Vesalius, Caius or Janus Cornarius.
In the 1530s, however, Belgian anatomist and physician Andreas Vesalius took on a project to translate many of Galen's Greek texts into Latin.
The development of modern neurology began in the 16th century with Vesalius, who described the anatomy of the brain and other organs ; he had little knowledge of the brain's function, thinking that it resided mainly in the ventricles.
In Renaissance Europe, Vesalius ( 1514 – 1564 ) and René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ) also made several contributions to neuroscience.
It ranks with the original work of Vesalius, Harvey and Hippocrates.
At around the same time, the findings of Vesalius corrected the previous anatomical teachings of Galen, which were based upon the dissection of animals even though they were supposed to be a guide to the human body.
* Andreas Vesalius ( 1514 – 1564 ) published De Humani Corporis Fabrica ( On the Fabric of the Human Body ) ( 1543 ), which discredited Galen's views.
Vesalius is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy.
He is sometimes also referred to as Andrea Vesalius, Andrea Vesalio, Andreas Vesal, André Vesalio and Andre Vesale.
Vesalius is the Latinized form of Andries van Wesel.
Vesalius, on the other hand, carried out dissection as the primary teaching tool, handling the actual work himself while his students clustered around the table.

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