Andreas Vesalius was born in 1514 AD in Brussels, Belgium. He was a physician, anatomist and author. He is often called the founder of modern human anatomy.
Until the time of Vesalius, information about the body was limited to observation and theory as human dissection was banned in those days. The only information available about the structure of the body came from Galen, who had based his observations on the dissection of animals such as monkeys and pigs. Vesalius however, was able to dissect a human body and was thus able to show that many of Galen’s observations were not accurate.
In 1543 Vesalius published On the Fabric of the Human Body. In this book Vesalius explained how nerves are connected to muscles, the structure of the vascular and circulatory system and the complex structure of the brain and heart. His findings transformed existing concepts of anatomy and established anatomy as a modern descriptive science.
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