Andreas Vesalius - the founder of modern anatomy (to the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andreas Vesalius)

The founder of modern anatomy is Belgian (Fleming) A. Vesalius (Andreas Vesalius), who was born 31 December 1514 in Brussels (Belgium) in the family of court physician. After education at the Medical Faculty of University of Paris and skillful mastery of anatomical dissection technique A. Vesalius became a Doctor of Medicine and taught anatomy and surgery at the University of Padua. The result of hard work of the scientist was famous treatise «On the structure of the human body» (De Humani corporis fabrica), published in Basel in 1543.A. Vesalius enriched science own data obtained as a result of numerous dissections of the human body.