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Andreas Vesalius was a Belgian scientist during the Renaissance. He was born in 1514 and died in 1564. He was from Brussels, today we call it Belgium. Andreas is from a family of doctors and pharmacists. He went to many universities that were in Italy, France, and Flanders. He became a private doctor to the Italian and Spanish royalty. He was known to be hardworking, curious, and confident. Vesalius was a thinker and also an observer. Andreas made many discoveries about the humans body. He wrote a book called "On the Structures of the Human Body" that explains the functions of the human body.


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How do the achievements of this person impact our society today? He advanced medicine and anatomy. He discovered many important discoveries of the body that help doctors today. His studies proved others wrong that were faults in anatomy.