Helen J Power, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003436
1514–1564 Belgian doctor and anatomist who challenged accepted knowledge on the structure of the human body, raised the status of anatomy among doctors and introduced naturalism into the portrayal of anatomical illustration.
Keywords: anatomy; dissection; Galenic tradition; naturalism; renaissance
| Further Reading | |
| book Vesalius A (1998) On the Fabric of the Human Body. Book I: The Bones and Cartilages, a translation of De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septum (1543) by Richardson WF in collaboration with Carman JB. San Francisco: Norman Publishing. | |
| book Vesalius A (1999) On the Fabric of the Human Body. Book II: The Ligaments and Muscles, a translation of De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septum (1543) by Richardson WF in collaboration with Carman JB. San Francisco: Norman Publishing. | |
| book Cushing H (1962) A Bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius. Hamden, CT: Archon Books. | |
| book Gillispie CC (ed.) (1972) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book French R (1999) Dissection and Vivisection in the European Renaissance. Aldershot: Ashgate. | |
| book O'Malley CD (1964) Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514–1564. Berkeley: University of California Press. | |
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