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= Andreas Vesalius =

Here are a few details about my life I was born on the 31 December 1514 and I died on the 15 October 1564. When I was graduated I was immediately given the chair of Surgery and Anatomy. Jobs: I treated the injured from war of a tournament. I joined court and they laughed at me because I was a barber.

I contributed to the Renaissance in the following ways I found and corrected astronomy, biology and found different things in the human body. I also found out more about animal bodies and found that they were different to the human body I did biology and it was one of my main subject’s. I was the first person to dissect the human body. I then examined the human body and found the organs and bones ect. I then wrote one of the most influential books teaching the public about the human and animal anatomies called De humani corporis fabrica also known as in English the fabric of the human body. I also found the skeletal system to be the framework of the human body and contradicted Galens wrong theories when doing an extensive study of a skull. I also discovered that a human’s sternum only consists of three parts. I also proved that men did not have one rib fewer than women (that was the belief at the time) and that the fibula and tibia bones of the leg were bigger than the humerus bones of the arm. I was the only person who dared to check and correct Galens ‘claims’.

I think these contributions were particularly important because people now wouldn’t know about the human body or the inside of any animals body and also they wouldn’t have the names of the e.g. organs and how they connected/worked. I contributed greatly to scientific studies through my findings and wide spread investigations. I discovered all of the insides of the human body. I made medicine which they use in 2010. Unlike Galen I could provide a book or tell people about the human body and what its about without getting it wrong and I could tell them about it perfectly without any mistakes. That is why you shouldn’t throw me off of the hot air balloon. (All the reasons above).

The picture shown here is of which helps to show that Andreas Vesalius is holding a human body up by the arm and the arm's skin has gone so it shows that he is experimenting on the human body.

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