| Galen, Vesalius, other anatomists, and the Church did not have the powerful perspective of historical data on anatomy, embryology, or genetics. |
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| This anatomical atlas, although drawn from dissection, did not reject Galenism as did the Fabrica of Vesalius. |
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| Vesalius said that the human sacrum normally has five vertebrae but one of six is by no means rare. |
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| Take, for example, the sad case of Michael Servetus, who had worked with the father of anatomy, Andreas Vesalius, as a prosector in Paris. |
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| In the interval between 1536 and 1543, Vesalius became so estranged from his Galenist past that his teachers suffered a kind of damnatio memoriae. |
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| This was a remarkable claim since Andreas Vesalius and modern anatomists had drawn human skeletons from observation and dissection since the sixteenth century. |
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| Vesalius and others, make it a Peculiarity to Man, that the Pericardium, or Bag that incloses the Heart, should be fastned to the Diaphragm. |
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| Vesalius dissected human corpses, whereas Galen dissected animal corpses. |
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| The Italian scholar Vesalius demonstrated mistakes in the Gaelic's ideas. |
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| When he revised this book in 1552, he incorporated anatomical information borrowed from Vesalius and contrary to the Galenist opinions of the first edition. |
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| For instance, Vesalius was imperative for advocating the use of Galen, but he also invigorated this text with experimentation, disagreements and further research. |
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| For instance, Andreas Vesalius was educated in a humanist fashion before producing a translation of Galen, whose ideas he verified through his own dissections. |
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| In his preface to the first edition, Netter mused on how the likes of Vesalius, Leonardo da Vinci, William Hunter, and Henry Gray would regard this text. |
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