Andreas Vesalius was a professor in anatomy during the scientific revolution born on December 31st, 1514. He came from a medical family. Andreas first studied medicine but later on grew an interest for anatomy. He was educated in the "anatomical works and theories of Galen", and was the first surgeon to cut open a human corpse. Andreas was very significant to the scientific revolution because of his discoveries on anatomy, which lead to the learning of new knowledge.
Andreas Vesalius grew a great amount of interest in anatomy in his early years when he was studying medicine but let that go to carry out the teaching of anatomy. He discovered the skeletal system, muscular system, nervous system, circulatory system, abdominal organs and the heart and brain. He also discovered that men and women have the same amount of ribs unlike what the bible said which was that god took out one rib from Adam and created eve out of it. This went against religious views and caused him some trouble with the church but later on he had dissections publically, which forced the church to believe him. This wasn't the only time he got into a conflict with the church. The church believed that the heart controls the whole body but Vesalius discovered that the nerves came from the brain not the heart. One of his greatest discoveries was "the canal through which the fetus passes between the umbilical vein". Between 1537-1538 Vesalius had made many discoveries and had a lot of experience dissecting corpses and lecturing on his own dissecting and on Galen who was an anatomist whose findings were the official work everyone used. At first when Vesalius began his study in human anatomy he believed in "galenism." Previous professors never opened up the corpses to examine it because everything they needed to know was found in Galen's books until Vesalius decided to dissect corpses himself to show his students anatomy in detail.
