Early Modern

  • Andreas Vesalius
    1543

    Andreas Vesalius

    publishes the anatomy treatise "De humani corporis fabrica".
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    published: An Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals.
  • Jan Swammerdam

    Jan Swammerdam

    He observed red cells in the blood using a microscope.
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke

    He was the first to use the word "cell". And he observes cork cells under a microscope.
  • Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

    Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

    he is a great scientist who observed many things, especially spermatozoa. This observations which show that the semen contained in the testicles is at the origin of the reproduction of mammals
  • Carl von Linné

    Carl von Linné

    He write his Systema Naturæ (the System of Nature), a classification system for living beings, unchanged since Aristotle.