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  1. 1514-1564. Belgian physician who
  2. revolutionized anatomy. His great innovations
  3. were to perform postmortem dissections and to
  4. make use of illustrations in teaching
  5. anatomy. The dissections (then illegal)
  6. enabled him to discover that Galen's system
  7. of medicine was based on fundamental
  8. anatomical errors. Vesalius' book De Humani
  9. Corporis Fabrica/On The Structure of the
  10. Human Body 1543, together with the astronomer
  11. Copernicus' major work, published in the same
  12. year, marked the dawn of modern science.
  13.