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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Andreas Vesalius, Georg Joachim Rheticus, Francis Knollys, Tahmasp I, Joachim Morlin, Daniele Barbaro, Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon, Henry, Duke of Cornwall, John Cheke, Everard Mercurian, Garcia Alvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of Villafranca, Meherji Rana, Otto Truchsess von Waldburg, Juan de la Cerda, 4th Duke of Medinaceli, George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, Bartholomew of Braga, Francisco Hernandez de Toledo, John Young, Lorenzino de' Medici, Gugliemo Sirleto, Hai Rui, Isabella of Braganza, Duchess of Guimaraes, Francisco de Montejo, Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Amago Haruhisa, Andreas Masius, Alexander Stewart, Duke of Ross, Andreas Musculus, Wolfgang Lazius, John Cawood, Gasparo Duiffopruggar, Hosokawa Harumoto, Andreas Aurifaber, Virgil Solis, Shimazu Takahisa, Maximilian II of Burgundy, Heine Havreki, George Gilpin, And Kiyosue, Akao Kiyotsuna, Diego Centeno, Bernardino Maffei, Hosokawa Ujitsuna, Cornelis Floris de Vriendt. Excerpt: Andreas Vesalius (31 December 1514 - 15 October 1564) was an anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body). Vesalius is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy. Vesalius is the Latinized form of Andries van Wesel. He is sometimes also referred to as Andreas Vesal, Andre Vesalio and Andre Vesale. Vesalius was born to Andries van Wesele and Isabel Crabbe on 31 December 1514, in Brussels, then in the Habsburg Netherlands, to a family of physicians. His great-grandfather, Jan van Wesel, probably born in Wesel, received his medical degree from the University of Pavia and taught medicine in 1528 at the then newly founded University of Leuven. His grandfather, Everard van Wesel, was the Royal Physician of Emperor Maximilian, while his father, ...
