Humanities

Birth of Andreas Vesalius

Dec 31, 1514

Andreas was born December 31 1514 to his father Anders van Wessel and mother Isabe Crabbe in Brussels, Habsburg, Nertherlands, which is now known as Belgium

Forced to move

1536

Andreas Vesalius was forced to leave France due to the relation between France and the Holy Roman Empire, so he returned home and released his findings there.

Andreas Graduates

1537

Andreas earned his doctorate from the university of Paris. Just after he graduated he would be placed as head professor of surgery and anatomy in the university of Padua.

Andreas’s book

1539

Andreas after receiving good comments on his work, so he decided to make second copy to his first book ‘anatomicae’ and in 1538 made the ‘institutions anatomicae’

New job

1540

In 1540 Andreas received an invitation to be a physican at emperor Charles V after publishing his book

Andreas's findings

1541

Andreas found out that Galen’s teachings and thoughts were all incorrect to the human body but instead did it on the animals thinking that humans and animals were the same.

Andreas’s first major breakthrough

1543

After he realised that Galen’s finding were incorrect he was determined to study and find out more about the human body. He then finally dessected a human body of a disease falon to learn even more about actually what a human skeleton looks like and how it functions.

Andreas Vesalius’s Death

Oct 15, 1564

On October 15 1564 Andreas Vesalius died at the age of 49, the cause of his death was a shipwreck around the area of Zakynthos in Greece. He was soon after buried somewhere on the island of korfu.