Andreas Vesalius, Ambroise Paré and William Harvey. Like most of his contemporaries, he still had a soft spot for Galen’s 1400 year old ideas, but the keen young doctor Vesalius was soon ...

A few individuals, such as Andreas Vesalius, Ambroise Paré and William Harvey, made particularly important contributions to medical knowledge during the 16th and 17th centuries. An illustration ...