Person1514 – 1564
Andreas Vesalius
Also called: Vesalius
Flemish anatomist who dissected bodies himself at Padua and wrote On the Fabric of the Human Body, founding modern anatomy
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In 1543 Copernicus published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, placing the Sun at the centre of the universe, and in the same year Vesalius founded modern anatomy with On the Fabric of the Human Body. It was the beginning of the Scientific Revolution.
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- Nicolaus Copernicus1473 – 1543
Polish astronomer and churchman whose On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres argued that the Earth moves around the Sun
Themes this person appears in
- Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment and the English Revolutions1543 – 1796
The Scientific Revolution from Copernicus to Newton, parliamentary government in England won through the Puritan and Glorious Revolutions, and the Enlightenment that sought to remake society by reason — the groundwork of the civic revolutions and the Industrial Revolution