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Andreas Vesalius

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The Footnote June 27, 2026 · Isfahan

The 1025 CE Persian Medical Textbook That Was the Standard Reference in European Universities From 1180 to Roughly 1650

Ibn Sina's *Canon of Medicine*, compiled at Isfahan around 1025, synthesised Greek, Roman, Persian, and Arabic medical traditions into a five-volume systematic treatise. Translated into Latin in Toledo by Gerard of Cremona around 1180, it became the standard medical-school textbook at Paris, Padua, Montpellier, and Bologna for almost five centuries. The first English translation appeared in 1930.

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The Footnote June 27, 2026 · Padua

The 1543 Anatomical Atlas That Demolished 1,300 Years of Galenic Anatomy in One Book and Established That Galen Had Never Dissected a Human

Andreas Vesalius's *De humani corporis fabrica*, published at Basel in June 1543, was an anatomical atlas based on the direct dissection of approximately thirty human cadavers in Padua between 1540 and 1542. The book identified approximately 200 specific errors in Galen's anatomy. The conclusion that Galen had dissected only animals — never humans — ended 1,300 years of medical-faculty authority.

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