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Born c.335 BCE • Chalcedon • Bithynia
Died c.280 BCE
Subjects Of Study dissection
Galen of Pergamum
Galen
Greek physician
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius
Belgian physician
William Shippen, Jr.
American educator
Mondino De’ Luzzi
Italian physician
Erasistratus Of Ceos
Greek physician
William Harvey
William Harvey
English physician
Severino Antinori
Italian gynecologist and embryologist
Florence Sabin, c. 1915.
Florence Rena Sabin
American anatomist
John Hunter, detail of an oil painting by J. Jackson after Sir Joshua Reynolds; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Hunter
British surgeon
Franciscus Sylvius
Franciscus Sylvius
German physician
Matteo Colombo, oil painting by an unknown artist
Matteo Realdo Colombo
Italian physician
Cheselden, William
William Cheselden
British surgeon and teacher
Alexander Monro, secundus
Scottish physician, anatomist, and educator
Belon, detail from an engraving
Pierre Belon
French naturalist
Alexander Monro, primus
Scottish physician and professor of anatomy
Fabricius ab Aquapendente, oil painting by an unknown artist
Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente
Italian surgeon
Jean Cruveilhier
French pathologist
Lyonnet, detail of an oil painting by Hendrik van Limborch, 1742; in a private collection
Pierre Lyonnet
Dutch naturalist and engraver
Lorenzo Bellini, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist
Lorenzo Bellini
Italian physician and anatomist
Anders Adolf Retzius
Swedish anatomist and anthropologist