Johann Remmelin

Johann Remmelin, Latinized as Johannes Remmelius and in German Johannes Rumelin, was a German city physician who worked in Ulm and lived from 1583 to 1632. Born in Ulm, he studied at Tubingen, received his doctorate at Basel in 1607 and then practised in Ulm until disputes with the pharmacists, who objected to doctors supplying medicines, forced him to leave. He is best known as the inventor of a peelable flapbook of human anatomy, the Catoptrum microcosmicum, first issued in Latin in 1613 with later editions and translations. Its pages carried flaps that could be opened to show the body in layers and so simulated a dissection.