Leonardo Da Vinci and Andreas Vesalius were two important renaissance persons; Vesalius was a surgeon-anatomist who delivered innovative work on the study of the human body, Leonardo da Vinci was an artist who delivered strikingly accurate and beautiful drawings on the human body. Below we compare both masters with regard to their knowledge of the working of the muscles, their method and system...

The purpose of this study was to trace the history of woodblocks created in 1542 by Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564). Carved by the Venetian workmen on pear tree boards, the woodblocks were used in the Basel printing of Vesalius' works De Humani Corporis Fabrica and Epitome from 1543, The China Root Epistle (1546), and the frontispiece of the Fabrica, the edition from 1555. The blocks remained with...

THE career of Andreas Vesalius is a milestone in the history of anatomy, since the publication of Vesalius' Fabrica in 1543 gave rise to an independent way of thinking and new methods of research. Indeed we owe him the foundation of our modern medical science which is characterized by systematic observation of cases. Certainly there is no doubt about this nor would anyone intend to minimize Ves...

It is with great regret that we report the sudden death from coronary heart disease on 7 April 1970 of Professor Charles Donald O'Malley, M.A., Ph.D., the distinguished medical historian of the University of California at Los Angeles, the leading authority on Renaissance anatomy and especially on the life and work of Andreas Vesalius. Charles Donald O'Malley was born at Alameda, California on 1...

There is an ongoing debate about the relation between religious confession and sixteenth-century medicine. Although it is generally agreed that Richard Toellner's statement "In Wittenberg the Reformation does not affect the medical faculty", which closes a paper published in 1984,' cannot be maintained in this apodictic formulation, recent research still discusses how and to what extent confess...

You have accessJournal of UrologyHistory Urology Forum II (HF02)1 Sep 2021HF02-09 VENI, VIDI, VESALIUS: DISCOVERY OF THE GENITOURINARY SYSTEM David Sikule SikuleDavid More articles by this author View All Author Informationhttps://doi.org/10.1097/JU.0000000000001993.09AboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints ShareFacebookLinked InTwitterEmail Abstract I...

Pituitary (hypophysis), the secreting gland located in the sella turcica, has fascinated the scientists since ages. In 1543 the Belgian scientist Andreas Vesalius described the anatomy of pituitary gland for the first time. He believed that pituitary produces mucus, which is secreted from the brain into the nasal cavity. This is why pituitary was called the mucous gland (glandula pituitaria; pi...