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Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) great innovations were to perform postmortem dissections, and to make use of illustrations in teaching anatomy.

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These enabled him to discover that Galen's system of medicine was based on fundamental anatomical errors.

Vesalius' book De Humani Corporis Fdbrica/On The Structure of the Human Body in 1543, published in the same year as Copernicus' De revolutionibus, marked the dawn of the modern scientific era.

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