Vesalius Cause and Effect Renaissance

About Vesalius

Vesalius was born in Brussels, Belgium. His father was court apothecary to Charles V of Spain, the Holy Roman Emperor. Vesalius studied medicine from the University of Louvain and the University of Paris. He then obtained his medical degree from the University of Padua in 1537. Later he became more interested in anatomy.

Cause of the New Way of Thinking

Introduction

During his educational career and later life, Vesalius learned about an ancient physician named Galen. During that time they still continued to teach about Galen and his discoveries about the human body. When Vesalius later became more interested in anatomy, he began to think that Galen and his claims were wrong. He thought this because Galen's work was very outdated and Galen had no evidence to back up his claims. This caused Vesalius to try and discover things about the human body using evidence and experience to back up his claims.

During the Renaissance there was a medical doctor named Andreas Vesalius. During his time he discovered many new things about the human body that were previously unknown or thought to be different. Even today his discoveries are still correct and we continue to use them in modern day medicine and anatomy.

Vesalius Cause and Effect

By: Alex Meister, Lilly Schindler, and Torsten Hankins

The New Way of Thinking

Impact on Modern Day

Vesalius' work has greatly impacted today's understanding of anatomy and medicine. Even back in his time this was a great event and it greatly helped medicine and the understanding of the human body overall. If it wasn't for Vesalius and what he acomplished, we would never have come this far in our understanding of the human body and how it works.

Vesalius then set off to increase his knowledge of human anatomy by dissecting human bodies. This was considered a very bad practice, especially to the church. Because of this he then had to do the autopsies in secret and counted on his friends in the local government to look the other way. After doing many autopsies, he learned much more about the human body and had evidence and experience to back up his claims. After gathering his information he then published a book called "De Humani Commis Fabrica" (The Structures of the Human Body) in 1543. This book was all about the discoveries he had made. Most of his claims and the information in the book are still correct today.