Andreas Vesalius is one of the greatest minds of the Renaissance, he is frequently referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy. The reason he accurately represents the Renaissance is because of his dedication, persistence and intelligence. He was extremely dedicated to learn the truth about the human anatomy. No matter the difficulties that he came across, he was determined to find the truth, and because of this, he created the basic outline of human anatomy in modern studies and shared his knowledge by writing his book called “De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem”, which is translated into “On the Fabric of the Human Body”.
Andreas Vesalius proved his dedication by disproving Galen’s discoveries about human anatomy. He did this even though many people had been following what Galen had said for many years, making extremely difficult for them to believe Vesalius’s
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He shows his creativity when he wrote his set of books called “De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem”, these books contained extremely detailed illustrations of the human body while also explaining all of his discoveries in text. Which were the first books of their time to be reasonably accurate (“The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: The Father of Modern Anatomy and His Most Famous Work”). The reason these books were considered accurate was because he based the illustrations on the research he had done while dissecting human corpses ( “De Humani Corporis Fabrica”, 2009), unlike Galen who had based his research on animal dissections. He showed intelligence through his research, interpreting countless kinds of information and piecing it together, giving modern researchers their basic knowledge about the human body. Without him, the information he discovered might not have been discovered at all. Or more realistically, without him, there would have caused a major setback in the discoveries of the human