Andreas Vesalius made a number of astonishing developments in the field of anatomy, in an age when to do so most often constituted heresy in the eyes of the church. Vesalius, born Andries van Wesel, was born on the 31 of December in 1514 to Brabancon apothecary Anders van Wesel and his wife Isabel Crabbe. The prodigious anatomist emanated from a long line of medical professionals; his father an apothecary, his grandfather a royal physician and his great grandfather a medical professor at the University…
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