In the 1530s  I showed people the importance of surgery and anatomy and wrote a pamphlet on blood letting, a popular treatment for common illnesses. This pamphlet was supported by my  knowledge on the blood system and showed how anatomical dissection could also be used in test speculation and emphasized the significance on understanding the human body in medicine. In 1539 Paduan became interested in my work and donated bodies from executed criminals to my human dissections. Now I was able to make repeated and corresponding dissections on humans and in 1543 i published De Humani Corporis Fabrica based on my knowledge.

My work overthrew many of the hitherto-uncontested doctrines of the second-century anatomist Galen, and caused a storm of criticism from other anatomists because I wanted to prove them wrong with some of there assumptions about the human body. Galen studied the animal body or mainly apes instead of the human to make his discoveries on human anatomy . Some of my influences were Jacques Dubois and Jean Fernel, when I studied under them in university I found my interest in anatomy. Also my family had been established in  medicine for several generations.

In 1543 I contributed to humanish by writing seven volumes on the human body called De humani corporis fabrica (The structures of the human body). All were illustrated by my own drawing’s , this book described several organs and for the first time the thalmus. This was the most accurate and detailed anatomical text ever to be produced.

Andreas Vesalius

Hello everybody, My name is Andreas Vesalius , I lived from December 31, 1514 to October 15, 1564. I was a anatomist, physician and an author of one of the most significant books on human anatomy in the renaissance . I was born in Brussels Belgium to a family of physicians. In 1528 I entered the university of louvain taking arts but then switched to learning about medicine , during that  I found my interest in anatomy and I started viewing bones at the cemetary of innocents. In 1536 I was forced to leave paris due to the opening of hostilities between the Holy Roman Empire and France, then I returned to Leuven. There I completed my studies under johann winter von andernach. After that I moved to venice also in 1536 and studied at the university of padua where i recieved my doctorate in 1537. In 1543 I published 7 books I wrote on the construction of the human body called De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. On october 15, 1564 I died in Zenta Greece.