2014Andreas Vesalius - 500 Years - First Day Cover

Andreas Vesalius was a physician and an anatomist, born in Brussels in 1514. Considered by the main authors in the field as the “father of modern anatomy”, he is credited with having advanced the science of physiology and the knowledge of the human body based on the dissection of cadavers, thereby contradicting the traditional classic technique which withdrew conclusions about the human body based on the observation of animals.