Erasistratus

Heinrich von Staden, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Published online: June 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003611

c315–240bc Greek practitioner of systematic human dissection who used experiments to verify his physiological hypotheses.

Keywords: dissection; vivisection; experimentation; teleology; mechanism; physiology; anatomy

Further Reading
	book Hankinson RJ (1998) Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
	book Harris CRS (1973) The Heart and the Vascular System in Ancient Greek Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
	book Lloyd GER (1973) Greek Science after Aristotle. London: Chatto & Windus.