Vesalius, Andreas

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Vesalius, Andreas (1514-64) Belgian physician and anatomist, who was a professor at Padua for six years before becoming a physician to the Habsburg court. He is remembered for producing in 1538-43 definitive text and anatomical drawings of the human body, which were made from actual dissections. 

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Vesalius, Andreas (1514-1564) Flemish anatomist who portrayed human anatomy with unprecedented accuracy, visible light The fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye. The visible region is bracketed by wavelengths of 400 nanometers (nm, violet) and 780 nm (red) and contains all wavelengths in between. 

A different type of physiological study that also influenced the alchemists and which bore an eschatological connotation was Andreas Vesalius De humani corporis fahrica libri septem (Basel Johannes Oporinus, 1543). The intriguing aspect of Vesalian anatomical illustration is the visual ambiguity of tbe cadavers as to whether they are truly dead, or still alive in some manner. In these pictures the bodies appear in various states of dismemberment, giving them the Christ-like pathos of Christian martyrs in painted narratives. Anatomy in... 

Harcourt, Glenn, Andreas Vesalius and the Anatomy of Ancient Sculpture, Representations, 17 (Special Issue The Cultural Display of the Body) (1987), 28-61. 

Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) publishes his epoch-making treatise The Fabric of the Human Body. He generally accepted Galenic physiological doctrines. 

The birth of anatomy, as the basis of scientific medicine, is usually attributed to Andreas Wiring, a physician from Wesel on the Rhine, better known by his Latin name, Vesalius. In 1543, Vesalius, a professor of anatomy at the University of Padua, published De humani corporis fabrica [The Makeup of the Human Body] for the first time in history, people were able to see, in beautiful and accurate illustrations, the structure of their own bodies. 7 The work made Vesalius famous as well as infamous He incurred the wrath of the Inquisition and was sentenced to a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, which, because of the uncertainties of travel at that time, practically amounted to the death penalty indeed, he never came back from the trip. ... 

In the year 1543, two revolutionary books were published which, before the days of printing, might easily have been ignored by orthodox thinkers. Now, however, they made their way eveiywhere and could not be overlooked. One was a book by a Polish astronomer, Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543), which held that the Earth was not the center of the universe as the great Greek astronomers had maintained, but that the Sun was. The other was a book by a Flemish anatomist, Andreas Vesalius (1514-64), which portrayed human anatomy with unprecedented accuracy. It was based on Vesalius s own observations, and refuted many of the beliefs that dated back to ancient Greek sources. 

The structure and function of the human brain have preoccupied physicians and philosophers alike since the dawn of history. Prominent Greek physicians such as Alcmaeon of Groton, Hippocrates, and Galen correcdy considered the nervous system to be the source of sensations, emotions, and cognitive faculties. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the anatomy of the brain was described in detail by Flemish physician Andreas Vesalius and English physician Thomas Willis. The term neurology was first used by Willis to describe the study of the brain. 

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The peripatetic Flemish anatomist Andreas Vesalius (1513-1564) (left), with the aid of the Basel printer J. Oporinus (Herbst) (1507-1568), in 1543 produced an exquisite anatomic folio in which the relationship of the stomach and esophagus was delineated. The dissections were undertaken in Padua and the drawings produced by Stephen van Calcar, a pupil of Titian. Although Vesalius captured the intimate association of the vagus nerves with the upper digestive tract and demonstrated clearly what would later become known as the angle of His, he failed to comment on the functional nature of the LES. 

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