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Andreas Vesalius’ Early Life  By:Grants959 What made Andreas Vesalius famous?
 * Andreas was born in Belgium in December 1514.
 * Went to universities of Louvain for 4 years, then after went to study medicine at universities in Paris.
 * Enrolled in the University of Padua.
 * He was famous for proving a very strongly believed anatomist named Galen wrong.
 * He was the first to start dissecting human body’s in order to understand them.
 * He made many medicines for many diseases.
 * He made magnificent illustrations of the human body in his time.
 * It was said his medicine became a science.
 * His work was the most accurate in his time.

What he did as a scientist
 * Andreas Vesalius is an Anatomist.
 * He dissected human bodies to discover how they work.
 * Tried to open up a new world of medicine.
 * One of the main things he dissected was the blood and nervous systems.
 * Was once a military surgeon.
 * Was extremely skilled at dissection.
 * Sadly died in 1564 at the age of 50.

Later life and Death
 * Did not believe in Catholics.
 * Andreas was accused of dissecting a live human being.
 * His sentence was originally accused of atheism and was going to be killed but then it was reduced to banishment on an island.
 * While getting there his boat crashed, he was fished out of the sea but died shortly after.

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