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Information: Andreas Vesalius was a Belgian Scientist. He lived from 1514- 1564 and was born in Brussels. Vesalius came from a family of medical figures and was very interested in anatomy. He was bold, curious, and hardworking. He achieved many things for the medical world, like writing the first medical textbook to be considered "modern" and discovering that the heart had 4 chambers.



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How do the achievements of this person impact our society today? The achievements Vesalius accomplished impacted us by helping the advances in medicine. If he had not been one of the first to run tests and dissect actual humans, we might have been much more ignorant than we are today.