Modern human anatomy (Vesalius)
Anatomía humana moderna (De humani corporis fabrica)
- Date
- 1543 · confidence high
- Place
- University of Padua, Italy
- Credited to
- Andreas Vesalius
- People
- 👤 Andrés Vesalio1514–1564
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
The first anatomical atlas based on direct human dissection, correcting more than 200 errors of Galen with illustrations of unprecedented precision. It founded anatomy as an observational science.
Published in Basel by Oporinus in the same year as Copernicus's De revolutionibus.
What it led to
- the end of Galen's unquestioned authority
- anatomical teaching with dissection in anatomical theatres
- surgery based on real anatomy
- scientific illustration
Built on
- Mondino de Luzzi's dissections
- Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings
- printing press
Made possible
- Illustrated anatomical atlas1543
- anatomical theatre
- anatomical atlases