Andreas Vesalius was a Flemish anatomist whose 1543 work De Humani Corporis Fabrica, published when he was twenty-eight, corrected numerous errors in Galen's anatomy through direct human dissection rather than the animal dissection Galen had relied on. Vesalius showed that the human mandible is a single bone rather than the two Galen described from ape anatomy, that the human sternum has three parts rather than Galen's seven, that the interventricular septum of the heart is solid rather than porous, and that humans lack the rete mirabile blood vessel network found in sheep, among other corrections. This atlas records what the historical record supports and is not medical advice.
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How did Andreas Vesalius correct Galen?
He used human dissection in his 1543 Fabrica to correct Galen's animal-based anatomy.
Andreas Vesalius was a Flemish anatomist whose 1543 work De Humani Corporis Fabrica, published when he was twenty-eight, corrected numerous errors in Galen's anatomy through direct human dissection rather than the animal dissection Galen had relied on. He showed that the human mandible is a single bone rather than two, that the human sternum has three parts rather than seven, that the interventricular septum of the heart is solid rather than porous, and that humans lack the rete mirabile found in sheep.
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Vesalius held the chair of surgery and anatomy at the University of Padua and taught anatomy through public human dissection.
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31 December 1514
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October 15, 1564
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Andries van Wezel (31 December 1514 - 15 October 1564), Latinized as Andreas Vesalius (), was an anatomist and physician who wrote De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (On the fabric of the human body in seven books), which is considered one of the most influential books on human anatomy and a major advance over the long-dominant work of Galen.
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In Group: Anatomists and Physiologists of Antiquity and the Renaissance, Introduction, sentence 1
Andries van Wezel (31 December 1514-15 October 1564), Latinized as Andreas Vesalius (), was an anatomist and physician who wrote De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (On the fabric of the human body in seven books), which is considered one of the most influential books on human anatomy and a major advance over the long-dominant work of Galen.
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