Andreas Vesalius lecturing in an anatomical theater in Padua, with a dissected cadaver In 1543, a 28‑year‑old professor of anatomy and surgery at the University of Padua, Andreas Vesalius, published a massive, lavishly illustrated book: De humani corporis fabrica (“On the Fabric of the Human Body”). It combined careful dissections, meticulous description, and dramatic woodcuts of skeletons and flayed bodies posed in landscapes. Vesalius challeng…
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