Vesalius, Andreas
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born on | 31 December 1514 Jul.Cal. (10 Jan 1515 greg.) at 05:45 (= 05:45 AM ) | ||||
Place | Brussels, Belgium, 50n50, 4e20 | ||||
Timezone | LMT m4e20 (is local mean time) | ||||
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Biography
Belgian physician, the first great anatomist and most celebrated of all dissectionist. By the age of 20 he was a master of knowledge of the body and by the age of 23 he was a professor of anatomy at the University. The author of "De Humani Corporis Fabrica," Vesalius had a scandal once when he began an autopsy on the body of a person not quite dead.
Died on 10/15/1564.
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Source Notes
Dana Holliday quotes Manly Palmer Hall in "Best of the NAJ," 1979. Kraum quotes Garceus for 5:30 AM LMT. Cardan for 5:45 AM LMT given in AFA, 8/1961
Sy Scholfield quotes Lois N. Magner's book, "A History of the Life Sciences" (2002), p. 83: "According to a horoscope cast by Girolamo Cardano, Vesalius was born at 5:45 am on December 31, 1514, in Brussels, Belgium."
Categories
- Vocation : Medical : Physician (Anatomist and dissectionist)
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction ("De Humani Corporis Fabrica")
- Notable : Book Collection : American Book