Renaissance Project- 2022
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Vesalius- Anatomic Entrepreneur
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- BIRTH
- ANDREAS VESALIUS-RENAISSANCE MAN
- In 1514, Andreas Vesalius (or Andries van Wesel) was born in Brabant (now Belgium) to a family of physicians.
- CHILDHOOD
- UNIVERSITY
- Vesalius's father was physician to the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian the first.
- At age 14 Vesalius entered the University of Louvain (in what is now Belgium) to study medicine. As dissecting human corpses was thought to be unethical, he had to learn human anatomy from frogs (and other creatures).
- What is thy? A FROG?!
- FURTHER STUDY...
- FIRST JOB
- In 1537 Vesalius was appointed professor of surgery at Padua University in Venice. He undertook his own HUMAN dissections, and curated detailed notes and illustrations on the human anatomy.
- MARRIAGE- PROMOTION
- Later Vesalius entered the University of Paris. Here Vesalius devoted himself to learning about the human skeleton (and performing his own dissections) with readily available cadavers in the Paris cemeteries.
- LIFE WORKS
- In 1543 Vesalius published "De humani corporis fabrica libri septem", his findings on human anatomy, upsetting classical works at the time. Vesalius used wood block carvings to illustrate his diagrams.
- In 1544 Vesalius married Anne van Hamme, and was engaged as a physician to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V.
- MOVE
- PILGRIMAGE
- In 1559 Vesalius was offered a position at the Spanish court by Philip ll, he traveled their with his wife, and daughter (Anne- born 1545).
- In 1564 Vesalius undertook a pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. His wife and daughter returned to Brussels.
- DEATH
- Returning from his Pilgrimage, Vesalius fell sick during a storm. Shortly after landing on the island of Zakynthos-Greece- in 1564 (descripinces on the actual date) he died. Never to see his family again.
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