16th Century in Belgium - 16th-Century Belgian People, Simon Stevin, Andreas Vesalius, 1580 Dover Straits Earthquake, William de Cro (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 16th-Century Belgian People, Simon Stevin, Andreas Vesalius, 1580 Dover Straits Earthquake, William de Cro, List of Governors of the Habsburg Netherlands, Pieter Van Aelst, Leonardus Lessius, Caterina Van Hemessen, Jacob de Backer, Paul and Mattheus Brill, Charles Iii de Cro, Hendrick Van Balen, Denis Van Alsloot, Joachim Beuckelaer. Excerpt: Andreas Vesalius Andreas Vesalius (Brussels, December 31, 1514 - Zakynthos, October 15, 1564) was an anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica (the fabric of the Human Body ). Vesalius is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy.Vesalius is the Latinized form of Andreas van Wesel . He is sometimes also referred to as Andreas Vesal and Andre Vesale .Early life and education Vesalius was born 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 1428 at the then newly founded University of Leuven . His grandfather, Everard van Wesel, was the Royal Physician of Emperor Maximilian, while his father, Andries van Wesel, went on to serve as apothecary to Maximillian, and later a valet de chambre to his successor Charles V . Andries encouraged his son to continue in the family tradition, and enrolled him in the Brethren of the Common Life in Brussels to learn Greek and Latin according to standards of the era.In 1528 Vesalius entered the University of Louvain (Pedagogium Castrense ) taking arts, but when his father was appointed as the Valet de Chambre in 1532, he decided to pursue a career in medicine at the University of Paris, where he moved in 1533. Here he studied the theories of Gal...