Vesalius and Modern Human Anatomy

Andries van Wesel

Flemish anatomist and physician of the 16th-century Renaissance. He taught medical education emphasizing human dissection at the University of Padua, verifying and correcting traditional anatomy—which had relied on the works of the ancient Roman physician Galen—through actual observation of the human body. In 1543, he published his major work, "On the Fabric of the Human Body (De humani corporis fabrica libri septem)," which greatly influenced the development of modern human anatomy through detailed anatomical illustrations and descriptions based on direct observation of the human body. He subsequently served as court physician to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and King Philip II of Spain.

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Year	Andries van Wesel
1514	Birth of Andries van Wesel (Period: December 31, 1514, Location: Brussels, present-day Belgium)
1520	Education in Leuven (Andries van Wesel, Age: 5 years old, Period: 1520s–c. 1533, Location: Leuven, present-day Belgium)
1530	Conflict with Galenic anatomy (Age: 15 years old, Period: 1530s–1540s, Location: Padua, Italy)
1533	Medical studies at the University of Paris (Andries van Wesel, Age: 18 years old, Period: c. 1533–1536, Location: Paris, Kingdom of France)
1536	Anatomical research in Leuven (Andries van Wesel, Age: 21 years old, Period: c. 1536, Location: Leuven, present-day Belgium)
1537	Obtaining Doctorate in Medicine at the University of Padua (Andries van Wesel, Age: 22 years old, Period: 1537, Location: Padua, Italy) Appointment as Professor of Anatomy at the University of Padua (Andries van Wesel, Age: 22 years old, Period: 1537–1542, Location: Padua, Italy)
1538	Publication of "Six Anatomical Tables" (Age: 23 years old, Period: 1538, Location: Venice, Italy)
1540	Activities as a military surgeon (Andries van Wesel, Age: 25 years old, Period: 1540s, Location: France, etc.)
1543	Habsburg-Valois Wars (Age: 28 years old, Period: c. 1543, Location: French-Spanish border area, etc.) Criticism of Vesalius's anatomical method (Age: 28 years old, Period: c. 1543–1555, Location: Holy Roman Empire, Spain, etc.) Publication of "De humani corporis fabrica" (Age: 28 years old, Period: 1543, Location: Basel, Switzerland) Appointment as personal physician to Emperor Charles V (Andries van Wesel, Age: 28 years old, Period: 1543, Location: Court of the Holy Roman Empire)
1546	Publication of "On the Chinese Root" (Age: 31 years old, Period: 1546, Location: Basel, etc.) Marriage (Andries van Wesel, Anne van Hamme, Age: 31 years old, Period: Some sources state 1540s, c. 1546, Location: Presumed around Belgium, specific location unknown)
1551	Investigation in Salamanca (Age: 36 years old, Period: 1551, Location: Salamanca, Spain)
1555	Publication of revised edition of "De humani corporis fabrica" (Age: 40 years old, Period: 1555, Location: Basel, Switzerland) Appointment as personal physician to Philip II (Andries van Wesel, Age: 40 years old, Period: 1555–1559 and later, Location: Spanish Royal Court)
1560	Legends surrounding human vivisection (Age: 45 years old, Period: 1560s, Location: Spain)
1564	Pilgrimage to Jerusalem (Andries van Wesel, Age: 49 years old, Period: 1564, Location: Venice, Cyprus, Jerusalem) Request to return to the University of Padua (Andries van Wesel, Age: 49 years old, Period: 1564, Location: Jerusalem) Shipwreck off Zakynthos (Andries van Wesel, Age: 49 years old, Period: October 1564, Location: Zakynthos (Zante), present-day Greece) Death of Andries van Wesel (Age: 49 years old, Period: October 15, 1564 (aged 49)) Death on Zakynthos (Andries van Wesel, Age: 49 years old, Period: October 15, 1564, Location: Zakynthos (Zante), present-day Greece)

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The English Reformation	Thomas Cranmer William Tyndale Thomas More John Fisher Hugh Latimer John Foxe John Jewel Richard Hooker
Renaissance science	Nicolaus Copernicus Andries van Wesel Gerard de Kremer John Napier Filippo Bruno Galileo Galilei
Renaissance Art	Leonardo da Vinci Benvenuto Cellini Andrea Palladio Philibert de l'Orme Pierre Lescot Jean Goujon

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