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Vesalius was born in Brussels while it was still part of the Netherlands (modern-day Belgium).

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After studying and completing his education, he was immediately offered the chair of surgery and anatomy at the University of Padua (Padova). In Vesalius' day, there were two factors working against medical discoveries; the first was a comprehensive medical publication by Claudius Galen that was taken as truth for nearly 1,300 years, and the second involved legal and ecclesiastical ramifications of performing autopsies or dissections on human cadavers.

He therefore published his own work, De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body), which remained in high regard for centuries. Much of Vesalius' work was unconsciously and unintentionally aimed at disproving Galen's medical information.

This became a focus of Vesalius after discovering that all of Galen's dissections had been performed on animals, and none of the informatio