De humani corporis fabrica libri septem | work by Vesalius | Britannica (original) (raw)

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• anatomical research
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    In autopsy: History of autopsy
    …work of Andreas Vesalius (De humani corporis fabrica, 1543) that made it possible to distinguish the abnormal, as such (e.g., an aneurysm), from the normal anatomy. Leonardo da Vinci dissected 30 corpses and noted “abnormal anatomy”; Michelangelo, too, performed a number of dissections. Earlier, in the 13th century, Frederick…
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• discussed in biography
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    In Andreas Vesalius: Life
    …Switzerland, where his major work De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (“The Seven Books on the Structure of the Human Body”) commonly known as the Fabrica, was printed in 1543.
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• use of écorché
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    In écorché
    Andreas Vesalius published his masterpiece, De humani corporis fabrica (“On the Structure of the Human Body”), and a similar work for artists that he called Epitome in 1543.
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history of

• medicine
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    In history of medicine: The spread of new learning
    …Padua, published De humani corporis fabrica (“On the Structure of the Human Body”). Based on his own dissections, this seminal work corrected many of Galen’s errors. By his scientific observations and methods, Vesalius showed that Galen could no longer be regarded as the final authority. His work at Padua was…
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• science
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    In history of science: The diffusion of scientific method
    …the Human Body,” called the De fabrica), a critical examination of Galen’s anatomy in which Vesalius drew on his own studies to correct many of Galen’s errors. Vesalius, like Newton a century later, emphasized the phenomena—i.e., the accurate description of natural facts. Vesalius’s work touched off a flurry of anatomical…
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